The red cell distribution width: What is its value for risk prognostication and for understanding disease pathophysiology?

Cardiology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 140-141

  Horne, Benjamin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID; IRON;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STROKE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054727603     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331434     Document Type: Note

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