Cut-off Points
An alternative method for Frailty Index cut off points to define frailty categories
... FI cut-off method is that it does not take age into account, especially given the fact that the FI increases exponentially with age ...FI cut-off points that takes into account age and ...
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Determination of Obesity Indices Cut-Off Points for Predicting Metabolic Syndrome in Inactive College Students
... lower cut-off points for BMI and WC in ...the cut-off points of BMI in China, Indonesia and Vietnam are ...and cut-off points for WC are 90 and 80 cm for ...
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Specific cut-off points for waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio as predictors of cardiometabolic risk in Black subjects: a cross-sectional study in Benin and Haiti
... the cut-off values have been validated primarily in ...WHtR cut-off points that best predicted cardio- metabolic risk (CMR) in groups of African (Benin) and African ancestry (Haiti) ...
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Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference and Cut Off Points for Metabolic Syndrome in Urban Residents in Ningxia
... suggested cut-off points are consistent with other ...reported cut-off points for WC range from 102 cm for American men [8], to 94 cm for Europeans [18], ...WC ...
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In house ELISA screening using a locally isolated Leptospirain Malaysia: determination of its cut off points
... Most of the commercially available ELISA kits using non-pathogenic L. biflexa strain patoc I as the antigen [6,9-11]. Since the prevalence of Leptospiral serogroups varies geographically [12], we developed an in-house ...
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Percent Body Fat Cut-Off Points for Diagnosing Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Adolescents
... To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to identify age- and sex-specific %BF cut-off points for Korean adolescents related to health out- come standards as well as metabolic syndrome. ...
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Portfolios Constructed with Cut-Off Points Based on Heteroscadastic Betas and OLS Betas
... Two alternative betas considered in this study are computed using Ordinary Least Squares(OLS) and GARCH models. Among GARCH models, the best model is selected as the one which corresponds to minimum AIC(Akaike ...
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Optimal cut-off points of lumbar pedicle thickness as a morphological parameter to predict lumbar spinal stenosis syndrome: a retrospective study
... the cross-sectional area of the dural sac and spinal canal, facet joint hypertrophy and LF thickness are associated with LSSS, aging and disc degeneration.. 7,8 However, few.[r] ...
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Original Article Does criterion of renal biopsy in asymptomatic isolated proteinuria children has already been identified?
... optimal cut-off point of ratio of urinary protein to creatinine as an indication of renal biopsy in children with persistent ...optimal cut-off points of uP/uCr ratio, ...the ...
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Visceral adiposity index score indicated the severity of coronary heart disease in Chinese adults
... According to the study of Amato et al [8], the appro- priate cut-off points of VAI for defining VAD were 2.52 for patients under 30 years, 2.23 for those aged between 30 and 42 years, 1.92 between 42 ...
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Screening for malnutrition in patients admitted to the hospital with a proximal femoral fracture
... values, the latter two high-risk groups of each tool were combined to produce binomial outcomes. For simplicity the scores above and below the aforementioned cut-off points are referred to as ...
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Functional performance levels of strength and power needed for independence in 80 year old individuals
... diagnostic cut-off points and to compare the diagnostic accuracy between power and ...the cut-off point was determined as the minimum discrepancy between the sensitivity and ...
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Significance of the prognostic nutritional index in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
... optimal cut-off point. To determine the optimal cut-off points for PNI, the Martingale residu- als of the Cox model (including sex, age, tumor location, tumor length, differentiation, T ...
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Association between obesity and self reported diseases: Population based study among adults in southern Brazil
... to cut-off points suggested by the World Health Organization as 94 cm for men and 80 cm for women, as a measure of metabolic risk in- creased, few studies in Brazil evaluated the appropriate- ness of ...
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Use of Homeostatic Model Assessment Indexes for the Identification of Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance among Cuban-Americans: A Cross Sectional Study
... HOMA1-IR cut off point for IR was ...A cut-off value of ...a cut-off point of ...a cut-off value of ...a cut-off value of ...of cut-off ...
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The Outcome of Monochorionic Diamniotic Twins Discordant at 11 to 13+6 Weeks’ Gestation
... discordances cut-off points that max- imized the ability to predict adverse outcome, which was defined as any of: death of one or both twins, twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, or estimated fetal ...
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Evaluation of mini nutrition assessment (MNA) tool among community dwelling elderly in urban community of Hawassa city, Southern Ethiopia
... established cut off point were found ...best cut-off point to detect malnourished and at risk of malnutrition was found 15 with sensitivity of ...established cut-off ...
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Detecting depression among adolescents in Santiago, Chile: sex differences
... 63. Cut-off scores are often used to categorize degrees of severity of depression or if a given score matches the presence of a clinical ...that cut-off points are established with a ...
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Elevated peripheral blood lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio predicts a favorable prognosis in the patients with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma
... ate cut-off points for absolute lymphocyte and mono- cyte counts as well as LMR to stratify the patients at high risk of malignancy-related ...
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Measurement of asthma control according to global initiative for asthma guidelines: a comparison with the asthma control questionnaire
... ACQ cut- off points previously defined to discriminate between “well-controlled” and “not well controlled” asthma have been suggested from the analysis of a large randomized clinical trial (Gaining ...
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