Does the monocyte/lymphocyte ratio predict the presence and severity of coronary artery disease better than the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio?
The monocyte/lymphocyte ratio may serve as a useful biomarker for predicting the presence and angiographic severity of coronary artery disease.
MLR was an independent risk factor of the presence of CAD, and a predictor of the lesion severity. Compared to neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), MLR has better performance to reflect the severity of coronary lesion.
Ji et al. (Fri,) studied this question.