Current cigarette smoking is a reversible cause of elevated white blood cell count: Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies

While cigarette smoking is a well-recognized cause of elevated white blood cell (WBC) count, studies on longitudinal effect of smoking cessation on WBC count are limited. We attempted to determine causal relationships between smoking and elevated WBC count by retrospective cross-sectional study cons...

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Main Authors: Higuchi, Takakazu, Omata, Fumio, Tsuchihashi, Kenji, Higashioka, Kazuhiko, Koyamada, Ryosuke, Okada, Sadamu
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995538/