Lack of association between blood donor age and survival of transfused patients

Blood

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 658-661

  Vasan, Senthil K ^a   Chiesa, Flaminia ^a   Rostgaard, Klaus ^b   Magnusson, Patrik K E ^a   Halmin, Marit ^a   Nielsen, Kaspar Rene ^c   Titlestad, Kjell Einar ^d   Hjalgrim, Henrik ^b,e   Edgren, Gustaf ^a,f  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTE; AGE; AGED; AGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; LONGEVITY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84958175608     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-11-683862     Document Type: Letter

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