IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0172027.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Red blood cell count has an independent contribution to the prediction of ultrasonography-diagnosed fatty liver disease

Author

Listed:
  • Hai-lin Wang
  • Hui Zhang
  • Shang-ling Wu
  • Gong-cheng Liao
  • Ai-ping Fang
  • Ming-fan Zhu
  • Hui-lian Zhu

Abstract

Background & aims: Red blood cell (RBC) indices have been demonstrated to be associated with fatty liver disease (FLD) and metabolic syndrome. However, controversy exists regarding the relationship of RBC indices with FLD to date and few has focused on RBC count. This study aimed to explore the association between RBC count and risk of FLD in Southern Chinese adults. Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was performed in two hospital health examination centers, including information on ultrasonography-diagnosed FLD, anthropometric indices and biochemical measurements. Covariance analysis was used to evaluate group differences. After quintile classification of RBC counts, logistic regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the odds ratios (ORs) of FLD. Results: This study consisted of 8618 subjects (4137 men and 4481 women) aged between 20 and 89 years. FLD cases had higher RBC counts than non-FLD cases in both genders (P

Suggested Citation

  • Hai-lin Wang & Hui Zhang & Shang-ling Wu & Gong-cheng Liao & Ai-ping Fang & Ming-fan Zhu & Hui-lian Zhu, 2017. "Red blood cell count has an independent contribution to the prediction of ultrasonography-diagnosed fatty liver disease," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(2), pages 1-11, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0172027
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172027
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0172027
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0172027&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0172027?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0172027. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.