Papers of the Week

Acute coronary syndrome represents an emerging epidemic in India. With increase in prevalence of risk factors such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia and others; there is also an increase in the incidence of Acute coronary syndrome. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is a measure of red blood cell width variation, reported as part of a standard complete blood count. RDW can be considered an independent prognostic marker of cardiovascular event. Elevated RDW is a strong predictor for mortality and major adverse cardiac events among patients admitted with Acute coronary syndrome.