Relationship Between Body Weight and Total Leukocyte Count in Morbid Obesity
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- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 84 (3) , 346-347
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/84.3.346
Abstract
The authors studied the relationship between total leukocyte count and body weight in 42 morbidly obese patients (weight range, 101.5–206.8 kg). None of the patients had a recent history of infection, hematologic disorders, chronic respiratory disease, or were smoking more than 5 cigarettes/day. The range of total leukocyte count was 4.2−12.0 × 109 cells/L. Twelve of the 42 patients had a leukocyte count of 10 × 109 cells/L. There was a significant correlation between body weight (kg) and total leukocyte count (r = 0.68, P < 0.001). Morbid obesity should be considered as one of the causes of physiologic leukocytosis.Keywords
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