Average values and racial differences of neutrophil lymphocyte ratio among a nationally representative sample of United States subjects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Azab, Basem ^a   Camacho Rivera, Marlene ^b   Taioli, Emanuela ^b  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; STEROID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

BIOMARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84910022093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112361     Document Type: Article

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