WBC Count Associated With Abdominal Fat

October 27th, 2008 | by David Spelts |

Blood Cells

Having a high WBC count increases your chance of abdominal obesity.  Waist circumference, total body fat, and subcutaneous fat are all significantly higher in those with higher WBC’s.

WBC count is positively associated with BMI, waist circumference, total body fat and subcutaneous fat.  Neutrophils, one of the WBC components, are more strongly associated with increased BMI, WHR and total body fat than the other WBC components.

Inflammation may be the trigger, raising both adiposity and WBC’s.

PMID: 18803941

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  1. 3 Responses to “WBC Count Associated With Abdominal Fat”

  2. By Radha on Aug 3, 2009 | Reply

    Actually Normal range of WBC is 4000-11000 but my value is 12,200 cells/cumm is any problem created pls. reply

  3. By Sabrina on Dec 10, 2009 | Reply

    How do you find out what your WBC is?

  4. By David Spelts on Dec 10, 2009 | Reply

    WBC is part of any CBC blood test. An elevated value usually indicates an underlying problem.

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