White blood cell subsets are associated with carotid intima-media thickness and pulse wave velocity in an older Chinese population: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study

Citation

Phillips AC, Jiang CQ, Thomas GN, Lin JM, Yue XJ, Cheng KK, Jin YL, Zhang WS & Lam TH (2012) White blood cell subsets are associated with carotid intima-media thickness and pulse wave velocity in an older Chinese population: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study. Journal of Human Hypertension, 26 (8), pp. 485-492. https://doi.org/10.1038/jhh.2011.58

Abstract
Cross-sectional associations between white blood cell (WBC) count, lymphocyte and granulocyte numbers, and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (PWV) were examined in a novel older Chinese community sample. A total of 817 men and 760 women from a sub-study of the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study had a full blood count measured by an automated hematology analyzer, carotid IMT by B-mode ultrasonography and brachial-ankle PWV by a non-invasive automatic waveform analyzer. Following adjustment for confounders, WBC count (β=0.07, P

Keywords
carotid intima-media thickness; granulocytes; lymphocytes; pulse wave velocity

Journal
Journal of Human Hypertension: Volume 26, Issue 8

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