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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2017-01-01
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Series: | Disease Markers |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7089493 |