OBJECTIVE Increased red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with severity of coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of the present study was to retrospectively evaluate the relationship between CAD detected by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and RDW. METHODS Records of 291 patients who underwent 16-slice CCTA due to the presence of angina-like chest pain were ret...

To investigate whether red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is a marker of the risk of Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) nephritis (HSPN), a total of 669 HSP patients and 168 healthy controls were included in this retrospective study. Two hundred fifty-six (38.3%) of the patients had kidney involvement. Compared with the HSP group, RDW was significantly higher in the HSPN group (P < .001). Bina...

OBJECTIVES Increases in red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide) predict the mortality of chronic heart failure patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). It was hypothesized that RDW is independent of and possibly even superior to NT-proBNP from the aspect of long-term mortality prediction. DESIGN The blood counts and...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Studies concerning red cell distribution width (RDW) for use in the assessment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) activity are limited. We investigated whether RDW is a marker of active disease in patients with IBD. METHODS In total, 61 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and 56 patients with Crohn's disease (CD) were enrolled in the study group, and 44 age- and-sex-matched...

Chickpea, the second most important legume crop, suffers major yield losses by terminal drought stress (DS). Stronger root system is known to enhance drought yields but this understanding remains controversial. To understand precisely the root traits contribution towards yield, 12 chickpea genotypes with well-known drought response were field evaluated under drought and optimal irrigation. Root...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to seek whether red cell distribution width (RDW) has a role in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. It was also aimed to show the relationship of RDW with leukocyte count and C-reactive protein (CRP) level. METHODS This study was conducted via retrospective assessment of the hospital records of the adult patients who were operated for acute appendicitis betw...

PURPOSE Peak oxygen uptake (peak VO₂) and ventilatory inefficiency (VE/VCO₂ slope) have proven to be strong prognostic markers in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Recently increased red cell distribution width (RDW) has emerged as an additional predictor of poor outcome in CHF. We sought to evaluate the relationship between RDW and cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) parameters in CH...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with the blood pressure (BP) reverse-dipper pattern in patients with hypertension. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Single centre. PARTICIPANTS Patients with essential hypertension were included in our study (n=708). The exclusion criteria included age <18 or >90 years, incomplete clinical data, ni...

Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) risk score and red blood cell distribution width (RDW) content can both independently predict major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). We investigated the combined predictive value of RDW and GRACE risk score for cardiovascular events in patients with ACS undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (P...

We have read the article ‘Preoperative red cell distribution width in patients undergoing pulmonary resections for non-small-cell lung cancer’ by Warwick et al. [1]. They aimed to investigate the association of red cell distribution width (RDW) in patients undergoing lung resections for non-small-cell lung cancer with respect to in-hospital morbidity, mortality and long-term survival. They conc...