Open AccessElevated White Blood Cell Count and Carotid Plaque Thickness
Author(s) -
Mitchell S.V. Elkind,
Jianfeng Cheng,
Bernadette BodenAlbala,
Myunghee Cho Paik,
Ralph L. Sacco
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/01.str.32.4.842
Subject(s) - medicine , quartile , confounding , odds ratio , confidence interval , percentile , logistic regression , stroke (engine) , white blood cell , epidemiology , cohort , cardiology , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , engineering
Elevated leukocyte count has been associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease in several epidemiological studies. We sought to determine whether white blood cell count (WBC) is associated with carotid plaque thickness in a stroke-free, multiethnic cohort.
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