Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS CFBBR0xj. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The authors investigated whether red blood cell distribution width (RDW) was associated with the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and mortality in a community cohort in Taiwan. The influence of anemia on the association was also assessed. RDW levels were measured in 3,226 participants aged 35 years or older who reported no CVD or cancer at baseline in 1990. During a median follow-up period of 15.9 years (1990-2007), 358 participants experienced stroke and/or coronary heart disease, and 810 participants died. The multivariate-adjusted hazard ratio for subjects in the highest RDW quartile as compared with the lowest quartile was 1.46 for both all-cause mortality (95% confidence interval : 1.17,1.81) and non-CVD mortality (95% confidence interval : 1.13,1.88) (P for trend
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