Increased red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with higher glycosylated hemoglobin (HbAlc) in the elderly

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2095-2098

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Targher, Giovanni ^b   Salvagno, Gian Luca ^b   Guidi, Gian Cesare ^b  

^a UO Diagnostica Ematochimica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anysocytosis; Diabetes; Elderly; RDW; Red blood cell distribution width

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADJUSTMENT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; AGING; BLOOD; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ITALY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; UPREGULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84922031728     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2014.140621     Document Type: Article

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