White blood cell count predicts all-cause, cardiovascular disease-cause and infection-cause one-year mortality of maintenance hemodialysis patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 552-559

  Hsu, Ching Wei ^a,b,c   Lin, Ja Liang ^a,b,c   Lin Tan, Dan Tzu ^a,b,c   Yen, Tzung Hai ^a,b,c   Chen, Kuan Hsing ^a,b,c  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Lin Kou Medical Center   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hemodialysis; High sensitivity C reactive protein; Infection; Inflammation; Mortality; White blood cell

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651485273     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2010.00849.x     Document Type: Article

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