Higher red blood cell distribution width is associated with the metabolic syndrome: Results of the ibermutuamur cardiovascular risk assessment study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Sánchez Chaparro, Miguel Angel ^a,b   Calvo Bonacho, Eva ^a   González Quintela, Arturo ^c   Cabrera, Martha ^a   Sáinz, Juan Carlos ^a   Fernández Labandera, Carlos ^a   Aguado, Luis Quevedo ^a   Meseguer, Ana Fernández ^a   Valdivielso, Pedro ^b   Román García, Javier ^a  

^a Ibermutuamur Mutua de Accidentes de Trabajo y Enfermedades Profesionales de la Seguridad Social 274 ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL MATURATION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX RATIO; SMOKING;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN;

EID: 77749242456     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc09-1707     Document Type: Letter

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