Average Values and Racial Differences of Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio among a Nationally Representative Sample of United States Subjects

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 11; p. e112361
• Main Authors: Azab, Basem, Camacho-Rivera, Marlene, Taioli, Emanuela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 06.11.2014; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Antibiotics; Biomarkers; Body mass; Body mass index; Cancer; Cardiovascular diseases; Cell number; Chemotherapy; Chronic diseases; Chronic illnesses; Comorbidity; Cross-Sectional Studies; Cut-off; Data processing; Demographic variables; Demographics; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Female; Gender differences; Heart attacks; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic people; Hispanics; Humans; Immunomodulation; Immunomodulators; Inflammation; Inflammation - blood; Inflammation - ethnology; Inflammatory response; Institutionalization; Laboratories; Leukocytes (neutrophilic); Lymphocyte Count; Lymphocytes; Male; Medical prognosis; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Mortality; Neutrophils; Nutrition; Population; Population studies; Race; Racial differences; Regression analysis; Regression models; Risk analysis; Risk factors; Risk taking; Smoking; Steroid hormones; Steroids; Studies; Surgery; Surveys; United States - ethnology; United States; New York; United States > US

Several studies reported the negative impact of elevated neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) on outcomes in many surgical and medical conditions. Previous studies used arbitrary NLR cut-off points according to the average of the populations under study. There is no data on the average NLR in the gener...