Why the study?
Does an elevated blood neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio predict an increased risk of developing hypertension?
Does an elevated blood neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio predict an increased risk of developing hypertension?
Elevated blood neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio may serve as a novel predictor for the development of hypertension, highlighting the potential role of inflammation.
NLR may support inflammation's role in hypertension risk; leaves open validation before any clinical use.
The study is the first to show the elevated NLR levels significantly correlate with an increased risk of developing hypertension. This result may be useful in elucidating the mechanism underlying the development of hypertension. New therapeutic approaches aimed at inflammation might be proposed to control hypertension and hypertensive damage.
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Liu et al. (2015) studied this question.
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