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Nature
November 2024
Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Blood Cells Mol Dis
November 2024
Department of Medicine and the James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA. Electronic address:
The red cell distribution width (RDW) is a standard variable reported in the complete blood count. It has been found to have a consistent relationship to life expectancy in older individuals, prognosis in patients with cardiovascular disease, outcome in those with hematological and non-hematological neoplasms and in a variety of medical circumstances such as non-cardiovascular or cancer related critical illness and postoperative outcome from various procedures. This report reviews some of the key medical publications establishing these relationships with RDW.
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May 2024
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University, and Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, USA.
Somatic mutations related to clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) are risk factors for stroke. The impact of , the most mutated gene in CHIP, on clinical functional outcomes of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) remains unclear. In a well-characterized cohort of 8524 ischemic stroke patients, we demonstrated that -driven CHIP was significantly associated with neurological disability in these patients.
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January 2024
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, IMMB, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece.
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