Original Contribution White Blood Cell Count and Risk for All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality in a Cohort of Koreans
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1 Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. 2 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 3 Department of Clinical Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 4 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea.
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White blood cell count and risk for all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality in a cohort of Koreans.
The authors conducted a 10-year prospective cohort study of mortality in relation to white blood cell counts of 437,454 Koreans, aged 40-95 years, who received health insurance from the National Health Insurance Corporation and were medically evaluated in 1993 or 1995, with white blood cell measurement. The main outcome measures were mortality from all causes, all cancers, and all atherosclerot...
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