Current cigarette smoking is a reversible cause of elevated white blood cell count: Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.

ABSTRACT: While cigarette smoking is a well-recognized cause of elevated white blood cell (WBC) count, studies on longitudinal effect of smoking cessation on WBC count are limited. We attempted to determine causal relationships between smoking and elevated WBC count by retrospective cross-sectional study consisting of 37,972 healthy Japanese adults who had a health check-up between April 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009 and longitudinal study involving 1730 current smokers who had more than four consecutive annual health check-ups between April 1, 2007 and March 31, 2012. In the cross-sectional study, younger age, male gender, increased body mass index, no alcohol habit, current smoking, and elevated C-reactive protein level were associated with elevated WBC count. Among these factors, current smoking had

SUBMITTER: Higuchi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4995538 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature