Current cigarette smoking is a reversible cause of elevated white blood cell count: Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 417-422

  Higuchi, Takakazu ^a   Omata, Fumio ^a,b   Tsuchihashi, Kenji ^a   Higashioka, Kazuhiko ^a   Koyamada, Ryosuke ^a   Okada, Sadamu ^a  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Leukocytosis; Longitudinal study; Smoking; White blood cell count

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84982267484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.08.009     Document Type: Article

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