Echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness and neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio are novel inflammatory predictors of cerebral ischemic stroke

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2328-2334

  Akil, Eşref ^a   Akil, Mehmet Ata ^a   Varol, Sefer ^a   Özdemir, Hasan Hüseyin ^a   Yücel, Yavuz ^a   Arslan, Demet ^a   Akyüz, Abdurahman ^a   Alan, Sait ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemic stroke; epicardial fat thickness; inflammation; neutrophil lymphocyte ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; EPICARDIAL FAT THICKNESS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY ANALYZER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; PROGNOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOGRAPHY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE;

EID: 84907992742     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2014.04.028     Document Type: Article

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