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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zulfic, Zlatan
• Weickert, Cynthia Shannon
• Weickert, Thomas W
• Liu, Dennis
• Myles, Nicholas
• Galletly, Cherrie

Titel

Neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio – a simple, accessible measure of inflammation, morbidity and prognosis in psychiatric disorders?

Ist Teil von

• Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2020-08, Vol.28 (4), p.454-458

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Objective: A narrative review to describe the utility of the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as an inflammatory marker in psychiatric and non-psychiatric disorders and to discuss the potential role of NLR in psychiatric research. Conclusions: NLR is inexpensive and readily available using division of two measures obtained on routine blood testing. NLR is elevated in a number of psychiatric disorders. It can predict morbidity and mortality in a wide range of non-psychiatric conditions, but this has not been confirmed in psychiatric conditions. It can be calculated in large, pre-existing datasets to investigate clinical correlates of inflammatory processes. NLR may have a future role in identifying patients with an inflammatory phenotype who could benefit from adjunctive anti-inflammatory medications.