Eosinophil count is positively correlated with coronary artery calcification

Hypertension Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 325-328

  Tanaka, Muhei ^a   Fukui, Michiaki ^a   Tomiyasu, Ki Ichiro ^b   Akabame, Satoshi ^b   Nakano, Koji ^b   Yamasaki, Masahiro ^a   Hasegawa, Goji ^a   Oda, Yohei ^a   Nakamura, Naoto ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yamashiro Public Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

allergic disorder; coronary artery calcification; eosinophil count

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CELL COUNT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84863229313     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2011.191     Document Type: Article

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