White Blood Cell Counts as Risk Markers of Developing Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components in the Predimed Study

• Nancy Babio,

  Affiliations Human Nutrition Unit, Sant Joan Hospital, IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Reus, Spain

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• Núria Ibarrola-Jurado,

  Affiliations Human Nutrition Unit, Sant Joan Hospital, IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Reus, Spain

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• Mònica Bulló,

  Affiliations Human Nutrition Unit, Sant Joan Hospital, IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Reus, Spain

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• Miguel Ángel Martínez-González,

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Medical School-Clínica, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

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• Julia Wärnberg,

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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• Itziar Salaverría,

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Txagorritxu, Vitoria, Spain, Department of Family Medicine, Primary Care Division of Sevilla, Esperanza Macarena Health Center, Sevilla, Spain

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• Manuel Ortega-Calvo,

  Affiliation CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Reus, Spain

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• Ramón Estruch,

  Affiliations CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Reus, Spain, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Lluís Serra-Majem,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

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• Maria Isabel Covas,

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Municipal Institute for Medical Research (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

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• José Vicente Sorli,

  Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutricion, Valencia, Spain

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• Jordi Salas-Salvadó ,

  * E-mail: jordi.salas@urv.cat

  Affiliations Human Nutrition Unit, Sant Joan Hospital, IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Reus, Spain

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• for the PREDIMED Study Investigators

  ¶The PREDIMED Study Investigators are provided in the Acknowledgments.

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