Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 3-7 , January 2009

Elevated white blood cell count is associated with arterial stiffness

  • Yong-Jae Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Ji-Won Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Jong-Koo Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Jung-Hyun Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Jin-Hyun Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Kil-Young Kwon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dental Hygiene, University of Eulji, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Hye-Ree Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Duk-Chul Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Jae-Yong Shim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Family Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 146-92 Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Tel.: +82 2 2019 3482; fax: +82 2 3463 3287.

Received 30 July 2007 ,Revised 15 December 2007 ,Accepted 22 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2008.02.003

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 3-7 , January 2009

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