The phrase "a sensitive predictor of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a variable or model that accurately forecasts or indicates a particular outcome or behavior, especially in fields like statistics, psychology, or medicine.
Example: "The study found that anxiety levels are a sensitive predictor of academic performance among students."
Alternatives: "an accurate indicator of" or "a reliable forecaster of".
VPT was a sensitive predictor of all three DSPN outcome measures (Table 3), with the highest sensitivity noted for confirmed clinical neuropathy (87%).
Rush et al. [1] showed in a combat setting the MESS was a sensitive predictor of amputation.
Our goal in this study was to investigate whether MVPA might yield a sensitive predictor of patient symptoms.
We seek to determine whether the anion gap is a sensitive predictor of lactic acidosis in the ED setting.
MMP-3 in particular has been shown to be a sensitive predictor of joint inflammation and cartilage catabolism in diseased joints [7, 8].
These findings indicate that high levels of total estradiol in older men are associated with better performance on a cue-based, controlled learning test of verbal memory that is a sensitive predictor of dementia.
We speculate that T90 may not be a sensitive predictor for misperception of sleep quality.
The mean HbA1c level and HbA1c change were used in this study, but the marginal value of the results suggested mean HbA1c level may not be a sensitive predictor for cardiovascular complication of diabetes mellitus.
Of note, pGDM exhibit higher HCL and lower plasma adiponectin, which is a sensitive predictor for future deterioration of glucose metabolism (10).
Therefore, these traditional PSG parameters were assumed not to be a sensitive predictor for investigating hypoxemia-related misperception of sleep quality.
It is interesting that Doherty et al did not find an association between cough VAS and cough reflex sensitivity measured by capsaicin challenge [ 16], suggesting that the cough reflex sensitivity in IPF is not a very sensitive predictor of actual cough rates.
