Usefulness of total lymphocyte count as predictor of outcome in patients with chronic heart failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1353-1356

  Charach, Gideon ^a   Grosskopf, Itamar ^a   Roth, Arie ^a   Afek, Arnon ^a   Wexler, Dov ^a   Sheps, David ^a   Weintraub, Moshe ^a   Rabinovich, Alexander ^a   Keren, Gad ^a   George, Jacob ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LIPID ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79954550589     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.12.049     Document Type: Article

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