The relationship between neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and vascular calcification in end-stage renal disease patients

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-53

  Turkmen, Kultigin ^a   Ozcicek, Fatih ^a   Ozcicek, Adalet ^a   Akbas, Emin Murat ^a   Erdur, Fatih Mehmet ^b   Tonbul, Halil Zeki ^b  

^a ERZINCAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NECMETTIN ERBAKAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcification neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; End stage renal disease; Thoracic peri aortic calcification

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEUTROPHIL TO LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THORACIC PERI AORTIC CALCIFICATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION NEUTROPHIL-TO-LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE; THORACIC PERI-AORTIC CALCIFICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; RENAL DIALYSIS; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84891903536     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hdi.12065     Document Type: Article

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