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The association between white blood cell count and acute myocardial infarction mortality in patients 65 years of age: findings from the cooperative cardiovascular project

Hal V. Barron, MD, FACC^* , Steven D. Harr, MD^*, Martha J. Radford, MD, FACC ^||, Yongfei Wang, MS and Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, FACC^{*, || ¶}

^* Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine (Cardiology), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Department of Medical Affairs, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
^|| Qualidigm, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
^¶ Section of Health Policy and Administration, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

View larger version (21K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Thirty-day mortality rate by white blood cell (WBC) count quintiles and genders.