Cut-Offs
<p>Optimal Cut-Offs of Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference to Identify Obesity in Chinese Type 2 Diabetic Patients</p>
... optimal cut-offs of BMI and WC to identify general and abdom- inal obesity for the patients with ...best cut-offs of BMI and WC were selected by the largest Youden index by ROC ...optimal ...
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The theoretical and practical determination of clinical cut offs for the British Sign Language versions of PHQ 9 and GAD 7
... Dataset 2, the well group comparator, also had some limitations. The anonymous data were derived from a pre-existing study and it was not possible to retrospect- ively gain additional information about patient charac- ...
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DAS28 CRP and DAS28 ESR cut offs for high disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis are not interchangeable
... HDA cut-off value of ...LDA cut-off values ...and cut-offs identi fi ed in a Japanese population may not be transferrable to the global ...
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Picky eating in Swedish preschoolers of different weight status: application of two new screening cut-offs
... screening cut-offs were applied to classify children as picky eaters ...both cut-offs, prevalence was significantly lower in the obesity ...the cut-off of 3.0 and 17% met the ...
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Methodological issues in the design of a rheumatoid arthritis activity score and its cut-offs
... External validity has to be assessed by collecting a blinded independent dataset meeting the criteria enounced in 1) of “Possible guidelines to define a disease activity score and cut-offs”. This test set ...
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Supporting the use of a coagulometric method for rivaroxaban control: a hypothesis-generating study to define the safety cut-offs
... anticoagulation effect, R-C of ≤1.65, as potential cut- offs of a pro-thrombotic state. Using the proposed therapeutic range for 158 plasma samples, 10 (6.5 %) were above the level of bleeding tendency at ...
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oA novel nonparametric approach for estimating cut-offs in continuous risk indicators with application to diabetes epidemiology
... NCEP cut-off. In both groups, the cut-offs were above the Inter- national Diabetes Federation (men > 94 cm; woman >80 cm) (6) criteria for the metabolic ...higher cut-off values in our ...
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Utility of faecal calprotectin in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) : what cut offs should we apply?
... when monitoring disease activity and treatment response in subjects known to have IBD. On a tech- nical note, the PhiCal v2 ELISA kit has a higher upper limit of detection thus reducing the number of dilution steps for ...
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Hemoglobin A(1c) Reporting Units and Diagnostic Cut-Offs in Relation to International Recommendations
... and cut-off limits for hemoglobin A(1c) in worldwide clinical laboratory practice and the quality assurance ranges of hemoglobin A(1c) by calculating the target limits from the values of Labquality ...
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Prevalence of thinness in children and adolescents in the Seychelles: comparison of two international growth references
... growth cut- offs (both thinness and overweight) should be based on data collected in populations that don ’ t suffer from either excessive overweight or underweight problems ...WHO cut-offs ...
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Cholesterol levels and development of cardiovascular disease in Koreans with type 2 diabetes mellitus and without pre-existing cardiovascular disease
... resistance mechanisms, in LDL-C characteristics and/or in aging processes influencing arterial stiffness, are some of the theories suggested [36]. The epidemiological evi- dence for an association of high LDL-C with an ...
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Increase in susceptibility to insecticides with aging of wild Anopheles gambiaemosquitoes from Côte d’Ivoire
... Dotted lines represent upper 98% and lower 80% cut-offs for WHO classifications; values above the upper line indicate susceptibility, values within the two lines indicate possible resist[r] ...
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Typical patterns of disordered eating among Swedish adolescents: associations with emotion dysregulation, depression, and self-esteem
... Although Clusters G4 and B4 (clinical shape and weight concern among girls and clinical DE among boys, respectively) had scores above the clinical cut-offs on two of the four DE indicators, these clusters ...
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Serum Mannose-Binding Lectin Concentration, but Not Genotype, Is Associated With Clostridium difficile Infection Recurrence: A Prospective Cohort Study
... used cut‐offs ranging from 50 [30] to 500 ng/ml ...of cut‐off levels but there is a need for international consensus and harmonisation in this ...
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Laboratory markers of disease severity in Plasmodium knowlesi infection: a case control study
... precision). Cut-offs were obtained by exam- ining any value of the ROC curve with regard to its sensi- tivity and specificity and subsequently predictive values were ...
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Welfare theorems for random assignments with priorities
... priority cut-offs if for each random assignment y that dominates x in social welfare terms with respect to U there is a school j that uses a more lenient admission policy under ...that ...
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Specific IgE and skin prick tests to diagnose allergy to fresh and baked cow’s milk according to age: a systematic review
... practical cut-offs for CMA. The cut-offs proposed for SPT with commercial extracts or fresh milk are heterogeneous, probably because most of the studies included children of any age and with ...
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Haemoglobin and haematocrit: is the threefold conversion valid for assessing anaemia in malaria endemic settings?
... haematocrit cut-offs used to define anaemia (haematocrit < 33%), moderate anaemia (haematocrit < 24%) and severe anaemia (haematocrit < 15%) are likely to underestimate the burden of anaemia ...
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Cell-cycle arrest biomarkers in urine to predict acute kidney injury in septic and non-septic critically ill patients
... We divided the patients into 3 subgroups depending on the cut-offs proposed in previous studies [15] (Table 3). Although baseline sCr showed no statistically signifi- cant difference between subgroups, ...
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Analysis of strain and regional variation in gene expression in mouse brain
... Discussion Our most important finding is that by using ANOVA and feature selection at even quite conservative cut-offs, we identify genes with strain- and region-dependent variation in g[r] ...
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