BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has been found to be associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to determine whether the RDW measures are associated with the coronary artery calcification score (CACS) in patients who did not present with obvious coronary heart disease (CHD). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 527 ...

BACKGROUND Red blood cell distribution width (RDW), an automated measure of red blood cell size heterogeneity (e.g., anisocytosis) that is largely overlooked, is a newly recognized risk marker in patients with cardiovascular diseases, but its role in persistent viral infection has not been well-defined. The present study was designed to investigate the association between RDW values and differe...

INTRODUCTION Both end-organ damage and high red cell distribution width (RDW) values are associated with adverse cardiovascular events, inflammatory status, and neurohumoral activation in hypertensive disease and in the general population. In this study, we investigated the relationship between RDW and end-organ damage in hypertensive patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS The 446 systo-diastolic hyp...

BACKGROUND Elevated red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is a valid predictor of outcome in acute heart failure (AHF). It is unknown whether elevated RDW remains predictive in AHF patients with either preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥50% or reduced LVEF (<50%). METHODS AND RESULTS Prospective local registry including 402 consecutive hospitalized AHF patients without acu...

Red blood distribution width (RDW) is a novel prognostic marker that reflects oxidative stress and inflammation in patients. Chronic inflammation has been proposed as a candidate mechanism between benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, the relationship between RDW and MetS in BPH patients is unclear. Men aged 50 year-old or older with BPH were recruited into ...

OBJECTIVE The red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has recently been used as a marker to predict outcome in various patient groups. In this study, we aimed to examine how RDW is influenced during the treatment and follow-up of cases of acute cholecystitis which is a common inflammatory disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventy-two patients who were treated for acute cholecystitis, were include...

OBJECTIVES Red cell distribution width (RDW) has been identified as an independent risk factor with regard to prognosis in patients with cardiac disease. We sought to investigate the association of RDW in patients undergoing lung resections for non-small-cell lung cancer with respect to in-hospital morbidity, mortality and long-term survival. METHODS Analysis of consecutive patients on a vali...

BACKGROUND Red cell distribution width (RDW), neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet count (PLT) routinely tested as part of the complete blood count are indicative of systemic inflammation. The prognostic significance of NLR and PLT in cancer was demonstrated in many studies while the role of RDW has been hardly investigated. The present study aimed to assess the association of RDW, N...

BACKGROUND Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is a measure of heterogeneity in erythrocyte size used in the differential diagnosis of anemia. High levels are associated with elevated cardiovascular biomarkers and increased mortality. The hypothesis of this study is that high RDW levels on admission are associated with higher recourse to coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) in unstable angin...

We assessed whether red cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with serum uric acid (UA) level in a group of 512 patients with newly diagnosed hypertension, recruited in Beijing. Patients were divided into high uric acid group and low uric acid group according to the median (334.9 μmol/L) of serum uric acid. Compared with the low uric acid group, the patients with high uric acid had higher...