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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Huvudupphovsmän: Babio, N. (Nancy), Ibarrola-Jurado, N. (Nuria), Bullo, M. (Monica), Martinez-Gonzalez, M.A. (Miguel Ángel), Wärnberg, J. (Julia), Salaverria-Lete, I. (Itziar), Ortega-Calvo, M. (Manuel), Estruch, R. (Ramón), Serra-Majem, L. (Luis), Covas, M.I. (María Isabel), Sorli, J.V. (Jose V.), Salas-Salvado, J. (Jordi)
Materialtyp: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Språk:eng
Publicerad: Public Library of Sciences 2013
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Länkar:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/34170