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Pages 325 (April 2017)
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Vol. 36. Issue 4.
Pages 325 (April 2017)
Letter to the Editor
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Reply to the Letter to the Editor “Methodology, as well as physiological and pathological conditions, can affect analysis of the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio”
Resposta à Carta ao Editor «A metodologia assim como as condições fisiológica e patológica podem afetar a análise da relação linfócitos/monócitos»
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Tolga Han Efea,
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, Ahmet Goktug Ertemb, Tolga Cimena
a Department of Cardiology, Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
b Department of Cardiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Dear Editor,

We would like to thank Mustafa Gülgün for his interest in our manuscript. We investigated calcific aortic stenosis and its correlation with a novel inflammatory marker, the lymphocyte/monocyte ratio (LMR). We found a statistically significant difference in terms of LMR in patients compared with healthy controls and also found an inverse relationship between severity of calcific aortic stenosis and LMR.1 Mustafa Gülgün pointed out that the lymphocyte cell count is affected by various clinical factors such as gender, age, race, time of sampling, physical and psychological stress, pregnancy, drugs, infections, smoking, presence of anti-lymphocyte autoantibodies and procedures such as splenectomy. As we stated in our paper, we excluded patients that had active or chronic infection, systemic inflammatory or allergic disease, and renal, hepatic or hematologic disease. Besides, there were there no significant differences between the groups in terms of age, gender, smoking status or type of drugs used by the participants. All of our patients were Caucasian. In our hospital blood samples are drawn before midday after 10 hours of fasting, and we only used fasting blood samples for study. In addition, all the study participants were aged over 60, and at their age they were unlikely to perform heavy exercise.

In short, we tried to minimize the factors that could affect lymphocyte counts and other blood parameters. On the other hand, we agree with the author that prospective research into this topic may be useful.

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The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

Reference
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T.H. Efe, K. Gayretli Yayla, C. Yayla, et al.
Calcific aortic stenosis and its correlation with a novel inflammatory marker, the lymphocyte/monocyte ratio.
Rev Port Cardiol, 35 (2016), pp. 573-578
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