A U-shaped relationship between haematocrit and mortality in a large prospective cohort study | Zendy

Paolo Boffetta | Zendy; Farhad Islami | Zendy; Rajesh Vedanthan | Zendy; Akram Pourshams | Zendy; Farin Kamangar | Zendy; Hooman Khademi | Zendy; Arash Etemadi | Zendy; Rasool Salahi | Zendy; Shahryar Semnani | Zendy; Ashkan Emadi | Zendy; Christian C. Abnet | Zendy; Paul M. Brennan | Zendy; Paul D.P. Pharoah | Zendy; Sanford M. Dawsey | Zendy; Reza Malekzadeh | Zendy

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A U-shaped relationship between haematocrit and mortality in a large prospective cohort study

Author(s) -

Paolo Boffetta,

Farhad Islami,

Rajesh Vedanthan,

Akram Pourshams,

Farin Kamangar,

Hooman Khademi,

Arash Etemadi,

Rasool Salahi,

Shahryar Semnani,

Ashkan Emadi,

Christian C. Abnet,

Paul M. Brennan,

Paul D.P. Pharoah,

Sanford M. Dawsey,

Reza Malekzadeh

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyt013

Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , prospective cohort study , proportional hazards model , demography , confidence interval , population , epidemiology , cohort study , mortality rate , cohort , gerontology , environmental health , sociology

Only a limited number of studies have investigated the correlation between haematocrit (HCT) and mortality in the general population, and few of those studies have had data on a wide range of low and high levels of HCT. We investigated the association between baseline HCT and mortality in a prospective cohort study of 49,983 adult subjects in Iran with a broad spectrum of HCT values.

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