White blood cell count, sex and age are major determinants of heterogeneity of platelet indices in an adult general population: results from the MOLI-SANI project

Background The understanding of non-genetic regulation of platelet indices - platelet count, plateletcrit, mean platelet volume, and platelet distribution width - is limited. The association of these platelet indices with a number of biochemical, environmental and clinical variables was studied in a...

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Published in:Haematologica
Main Authors: Iolanda Santimone, Augusto Di Castelnuovo, Amalia De Curtis, Maria Spinelli, Daniela Cugino, Francesco Gianfagna, Francesco Zito, Maria Benedetta Donati, Chiara Cerletti, Giovanni de Gaetano, Licia Iacoviello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ferrata Storti Foundation 2011-08-01
Online Access:https://haematologica.org/article/view/6045