Red Blood Cell Distribution Width: A Novel Predictive Indicator for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases

The red blood cell distribution width (RDW) obtained from a standard complete blood count (CBC) is a convenient and inexpensive biochemical parameter representing the variability in size of circulating erythrocytes. Over the past few decades, RDW with mean corpuscular volume (MCV) has been used to i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ning Li, Heng Zhou, Qizhu Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Disease Markers
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7089493