Reference value and annual trend of white blood cell counts among adult Japanese population

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 143-150

  Sakuragi, Sonoko ^a   Moriguchi, Jiro ^a   Ohashi, Fumiko ^a   Ikeda, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annual trend; Japanese; Leukocyte counts; Men; Reference value; White blood cell counts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; REFERENCE VALUE; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT;

EID: 84878516481     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-012-0304-8     Document Type: Article

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