American Heart Journal
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 42-48, January 2004

Elevated leukocyte count and adverse hospital events in patients with acute coronary syndromes: findings from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE)☆

  • Mark I Furman, MD, FACC

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    • University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Mark I. Furman, MD, FACC, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue N, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
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  • Joel M Gore, MD

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    • University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass, USA
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  • Fredrick A Anderson, PhD

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    • University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass, USA
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  • Andrzej Budaj, MD, PhD

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    • Grochowski Hospital, Warsaw, Poland
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  • Shaun G Goodman, MD

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    • Canadian Heart Research Centre and Terrence Donnelly Heart Centre, Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Ávaro Avezum, MD

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    • CTI-A Hospital Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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  • José López-Sendón, MD

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    • Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
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  • Werner Klein, MD

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    • Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Klinische Abteilung für Kardiologi, Graz, Austria
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  • Debabrata Mukherjee, MD

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    • University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA
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  • Kim A Eagle, MD

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    • University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA
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  • Omar H Dabbous, MD, MPH

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    • University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass, USA
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  • Robert J Goldberg, MD

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    • University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass, USA
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  • GRACE Investigators

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Received 7 March 2003; accepted 15 July 2003.

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☆ The GRACE project is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Aventis Pharma (Bridgewater, NJ).Guest Editor for this manuscript was Raymond J. Gibbons, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

PII: S0002-8703(03)00592-1

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2003.07.003

American Heart Journal
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 42-48, January 2004

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