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An Overall And Dose-Response Meta-Analysis Of Red Blood Cell Distribution Width And Cvd Outcomes, Haifeng Hou, Tao Sun, Cheng Li, Yuanmin Li, Zheng Guo, Wei Wang, Dong Li
An Overall And Dose-Response Meta-Analysis Of Red Blood Cell Distribution Width And Cvd Outcomes, Haifeng Hou, Tao Sun, Cheng Li, Yuanmin Li, Zheng Guo, Wei Wang, Dong Li
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Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is the coefficient of variation of red blood cell size, considered to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to comprehensively synthesize previous studies on RDW and CVD outcomes through an overall and dose-response meta-analysis. PubMed, Embase and Web of Science were searched systematically for English and Chinese language publications up to November 30, 2015. We extracted data from publications matching our inclusion criteria for calculating pooled hazard ratio (HR), which was used to assess prognostic impact of RDW on CVD. Twenty-seven articles, consisting of 28 studies and 102,689 participants (mean age …