White blood cell counts as risk markers of developing metabolic syndrome and its components in the PREDIMED study
BACKGROUND: The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities that includes hyperglucemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia and central obesity, conferring an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The white blood cell (WBC) count has been proposed as a marker for predicting card...
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Format: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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Public Library of Sciences
2013
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Online Zugang: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/34170 |