TY - T1的周边分布相似blood eosinophil counts in European and East Asian populations from investigations of large-scale general population studies: the Nagahama Study JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.04101-2020 VL - 57 IS - 1 SP - 2004101 AU - Sunadome, Hironobu AU - Sato, Susumu AU - Matsumoto, Hisako AU - Murase, Kimihiko AU - Kawaguchi, Takahisa AU - Tabara, Yasuharu AU - Chin, Kazuo AU - Matsuda, Fumihiko AU - Hirai, Toyohiro Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - //www.qdcxjkg.com/content/57/1/2004101.abstract N2 - We read with interest the study by Hartl et al. [1] entitled “Blood eosinophil count in the general population: typical values and potential confounders”, recently published in the European Respirator Journal. This is an excellent paper showing the distribution of blood eosinophil counts in the general population, including more than 10 000 participants. The authors found a right-skewed, non-normal distribution with the tail towards the higher counts.There is ambiguity in the interpretation of peripheral blood total eosinophil count, and several proposed cut-off values or thresholds of 300 cells per μL have been used to identify the patients who are most likely to benefit from inhaled corticosteroids https://bit.ly/3ktCxofThe Nagahama study conforms to the standards of the Declaration of Helsinki. The Ethics Committee of the Kyoto University and the Nagahama Municipal Review Board approved this study protocol (Registry ID G0278). We obtained written informed consent from all the participants. We are grateful to Nagahama City Office and the nonprofit organisation Zeroji Club for their assistance in performing the Nagahama study. We are grateful to Yoshiro Toyama, Masanori Azuma, Ryo Tachikawa and Morito Inouchi (Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan) for their assistance in collecting data. ER -