Abstract

The association between white blood cell (WBC) counts and mortality in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) has not been established. The aim of this study is to determine whether higher WBC is associated with mortality at 90days. A retrospective observational study was conducted at two medical hospitals in China. Baseline WBC count on admission served as the primary predictor variable. Longitudinal WBC counts within the first week after admission were collected to assess the effects of WBC trajectory and the median and maximum WBC counts on outcomes following ICH. Associations of WBC count with outcomes were evaluated in multivariable regression analyses. We identified 3613 patients with ICH who met the inclusion criteria. After adjusting primary confounding variables, patients with increased WBC count had a significantly higher risk of 90-day mortality (p < 0.001 for trend). In the receiver operating characteristic analyses, the capacity for all-cause mortality prediction by WBC count on admission (area under the ROC curve (AUC) = 0.65) was superior to other important inflammatory markers, includingneutrophil(AUC = 0.64) , lymphocyte(AUC = 0.57), albumin(AUC = 0.57), and platelet count(AUC = 0.53), p < 0.001for WBC vs.neutrophil, and the median WBC count (AUC = 0.66) within the first week after admission was a better marker than admission WBC count (p = 0.02). In patients with ICH, WBC count on admission was associated with all-cause mortality at 90days. Additionally, the median and maximum WBC counts within the first week after admission showed better predictive ability for the 90-day mortality compared with the WBC count on admission.

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