Linear and non-linear relationships between red blood cell indices and cardiovascular risk factors: findings from the China National Health Survey

Huijing He, Li Pan, Feng Liu, Xiaolan Ren, Ze Cui, Lize Pa, Dingming Wang, Jingbo Zhao, Hailing Wang, Xianghua Wang, Jianwei Du, Xia Peng, Guangliang Shan · 2024

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Huijing He and co-authors link routine blood counts to heart risk factors in a 2024 study of the China National Health Survey. Red blood cell measures are cheap to test, and if they track risks such as diabetes and abnormal lipids, they could flag people for early checks. The team analyzed nearly thirty-two thousand survey participants from 2012 to 2017.

Three measures, hemoglobin, red cell count, and hematocrit, each rose in a straight-line pattern with every risk factor studied. People in the highest group for hemoglobin faced notably higher odds of high uric acid, diabetes, and poor lipid readings, though one good cholesterol measure fell. Most links bent rather than ran straight at the extremes, and the patterns differed between men and women.

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CREATORHuijing He, Li Pan, Feng Liu, Xiaolan Ren, Ze Cui, Lize Pa, Dingming Wang, Jingbo Zhao, Hailing Wang, Xianghua Wang, Jianwei Du, Xia Peng, Guangliang Shan
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE46 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11657473

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