A significant association between elevated white blood cell (WBC) count and mortality in patients with cancer has been reported, but the predictive value of elevated WBC on mortality in cancer patients with acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) has not been explored. RIETE is an ongoing registry of consecutive patients with acute VTE. We compared the three-month outcome of cancer patients with acu...

The characteristics (quantity, shape and color) of the white blood cell (WBC) can give vital information about a patient’s health. Hematologists, with the aid of microscopes, use their experience to classify WBCs and make appropriate reporting and recommendations to physicians. Automating the segmentation and classification of WBC could provide a useful tool in medical diagnoses. In this work, ...

Wilbrink' s-boric acid-cephalexin agar medium (WBC) was developed and tested for iso­ lating Xalllh omonas campeslris pv. IIndulosa, the causal agent of bacterial leaf streak of wheat or black chaff. from seed . WBC medium is Wilbrink's medium that has been modified by adding 0.75 gil of boric acid and 10 mg/l of cephalexin. Compared to the standard Wilbrink's medium, average plating efficiency...

Whole-body cryotherapy (WBC; -110 degrees C) and winter swimming (WS) in ice-cold water are severe ambient cold exposures, which are voluntarily practiced by humans in minimal clothing. The purpose was to examine thermal sensation and thermal comfort associated with WBC and WS. Twenty women similar in body mass index, age, physical activity, and use of hormonal contraception were pairwise rando...

The aims of this study were to determine whether sonographically measured cervical length is of value in the identification of microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity in women with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) and to compare its performance with maternal blood C-reactive protein (CRP), white blood cell count (WBC), and amniotic fluid (AF) WBC. This prospective observational ...

The aim of the study was to determine the effect of single whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) session applied prior to submaximal exercise on the activity of antioxidant enzymes, the concentration of lipid peroxidation products, total oxidative status, and the level of cytokines in blood of volleyball players. The study group consisted of 18 male professional volleyball players, who were subjected to...

Building upon the application of flags to network coding introduced in [6], we develop a variant this technique that uses degenerate flags. The information set is metric affine space isometric upper triangular matrices endowed with flag rank metric. This suggests development theory for codes analogy used linear subspace coding.

METHODS We assessed the association of lifestyle factors with white blood cell (WBC) count in 3681 Japanese male office workers aged 35-59 years. RESULTS The WBC count differed significantly across lifestyle factors (overall obesity, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, eating breakfast, nutritional balance, physical exercise and hours of work). From multiple linear regression analyses, ov...

Prognostic impact of peripheral blood white blood cell count (WBC) at the diagnosis of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) was evaluated in a population-based consecutive series of 2666 children aged 1-15 treated for ALL between 1992 and 2008 in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). Ten-year event-free (pEFS(10 y)) survival and overall (pOS(10 y)) s...

Endothelium-dependent dilation (EDD) is impaired with aging, but there is significant variability among healthy middle-aged and older adults. We tested the hypothesis that EDD is related to white blood cell (WBC) count in healthy men and women aged 55 to 75 years (n=48) who have a WBC count within the clinically normal range. The peak forearm blood flow response to intrabrachial artery infusion...