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White cell counts in relation to mortality in a general population of cohort study in the Netherlands: a mediating effect or not?

Itziar AbeteYunxia LuCamille LassaleMonique VerschurenYvonne van der SchouwBas Bueno-de-Mesquita
Published in: BMJ open (2019)
Prediagnostic WCC and its subtypes are associated with all-cause, cancer and CVD mortality risk. It may play a partially mediate role on the association between smoking or obesity and mortality.
Keyphrases
  • cardiovascular events
  • papillary thyroid
  • metabolic syndrome
  • insulin resistance
  • risk factors
  • type diabetes
  • weight loss
  • cell therapy
  • squamous cell
  • weight gain
  • stem cells
  • coronary artery disease