Of 289 patients with bacteremia, 52% had normal WBC count and 17% had neither WBC elevation nor fever. Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude ...

An elevated white blood cell (WBC) count in young men is an independent predictor for the development of diabetes in later life, suggest study findings. In addition, overweight and obese individuals ...

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Even when patients have normal white blood cell (WBC) counts, elevated band counts may diagnose infection and prompt earlier initiation of antibiotics, report researchers. "Our findings suggest that ...

The value of the white blood cell count (WBC) in necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is controversial. One reason for this confusion may be that the various WBC lineages change substantially with ...

The fact that leukocytosis is associated with infection does not mean that the white blood cell count is a good test for infection, because many patients with infection have no leukocytosis, and many ...