Total and differential white blood cell counts predict eight-year incident coronary heart disease in elderly Japanese-American men: The Honolulu Heart Program

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 153-158

  Karino, Shigehiko ^a   Willcox, Bradley J ^a,b   Fong, Kaon ^a   Lo, Serena ^a   Abbott, Robert ^a,c   Masaki, Kamal H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b KUAKINI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Atherosclerosis; Coronary disease; Inflammation; Leukocytes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOCYTE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BLOOD; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHIL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CORONARY DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOCYTES; HAWAII; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHILS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84917690668     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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