The association of leukocyte count, fibrinogen and c-reactive protein with vascular risk factors and ischemic vascular diseases

Fibrinogen as a Risk Factor for Stroke and Myocardial Infarction

1984 • 1,686 citations

Fibrinogen as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor

1993 • 1,015 citations

C-reactive protein induces human peripheral blood monocytes to synthesize tissue factor

1993 • 809 citations

The Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis: Atherogenesis and Inflammation

1989 • 701 citations

Cytokine activation of vascular endothelium. Effects on tissue-type plasminogen activator and type 1 plasminogen activator inhibitor.

1988 • 561 citations

Leukocytes and the Risk of Ischemic Diseases

1987 • 525 citations

Metabolic risk factors for coronary heart disease in women: Perspective from the Framingham Study

1987 • 483 citations

The Leukocyte Count as a Predictor of Myocardial Infarction

1974 • 474 citations

Characteristics affecting fibrinolytic activity and plasma fibrinogen concentrations.

1979 • 426 citations

Prognostic Importance of the White Blood Cell Count for Coronary, Cancer, and All-Cause Mortality

1985 • 361 citations

White blood cell count and cardiovascular disease. Insights from the Framingham Study

1992 • 322 citations

Recent Infection as a Risk Factor for Cerebrovascular Ischemia

1995 • 248 citations

Leukocyte Count, Smoking, and Myocardial Infarction

1981 • 242 citations

Smoking and leucocyte-counts. Results of an epidemiological survey.

1971 • 228 citations

Association of Variables of Coagulation, Fibrinolysis and Acute-phase with Atherosclerosis in Coronary and Peripheral Arteries and those Arteries Supplying the Brain

1995 • 201 citations

LEUKOCYTE COUNTS AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN A JAPANESE COHORT

1982 • 200 citations

Leukocyte counts and activation in spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rats.

1991 • 185 citations

Hyperfibrinogenemia: An important risk factor for vascular complications in diabetes

1992 • 178 citations

Increased levels of acute-phase serum proteins in diabetes

1989 • 174 citations

Fibrinogen in relation to personal history of prevalent hypertension, diabetes, stroke, intermittent claudication, coronary heart disease, and family history: the Scottish Heart Health Study.

1993 • 171 citations

Smoking and leucocyte-counts

1971 • 147 citations

Leukocyte counts and cerebrovascular disease

1982 • 143 citations

Association between leukocyte count and the presence and extent of coronary atherosclerosis as determined by coronary arteriography

1984 • 133 citations

Haematological stress syndrome in atherosclerosis.

1981 • 132 citations

The Leucocyte Count: Correlates and Relationship to Coronary Risk Factors: The CARDIA Study

1990 • 113 citations

Leukocytes and the risk of ischemic diseases

1987 • 109 citations

C-reactive protein increases production of IL-1α, IL-1β, and TNF-α, and expression of mRNA by human alveolar macrophages

1993 • 104 citations

The Relationship of White Blood Cell Count to Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors

1990 • 100 citations

Endogenous testosterone, fibrinolysis, and coronary heart disease risk in hyperlipidemic men.

1993 • 91 citations

Prediction of carotid stenosis progression by lipid and hematologic measurements

1989 • 87 citations

Stroke risk factors prepare rat brainstem tissues for modified local Shwartzman reaction.

1988 • 77 citations

Serum glycoproteins and severity of coronary atherosclerosis

1995 • 72 citations

The importance of triglycerides: Results from the prospective cardiovascular M�nster (PROCAM) study

1992 • 70 citations

Demonstration of a relationship between white blood cell count, insulin resistance, and several risk factors for coronary heart disease in women

1992 • 69 citations

Prognostic importance of the white blood cell count for coronary, cancer, and all-cause mortality

1985 • 55 citations

White Blood Cell Count and Stroke Incidence and Death

1994 • 53 citations

Lipopolysaccharide-induced production of tumor necrosis factor activity in rats with and without risk factors for stroke

1991 • 50 citations

Relation of fibronogen to presence and severity of coronary artery disease is independent of other coexisting heart disease

1993 • 38 citations

Recruitment and dynamics of leukocytes in the formation of arterial intimal thickening — A comparative study with normo- and hypercholesterolemic rabbits

1993 • 33 citations

Increased Levels of Leukocyte Elastase in Ischemic Stroke and in Subjects with Vascular Risk Factors

1995 • 11 citations