Sentence examples for a weak marker of from inspiring English sources

In summary, the limited available evidence suggests that NGAL is a weak marker of risk for renal function decline but might be a predictor of cardiac event in the setting of HF in patients with and without renal disease.

The latter is consistent with previous work showing that assessment of disease alone is a weak marker of health status in older individuals, even when indicators of disease severity are considered [ 62].

As previously reported, 46 telangiectasia may be a weaker marker of skin ageing in women due to the protective effect of oestrogens on skin microvasculature.

MMP-9 may be a weaker marker of CHD risk in healthy sub-groups because MMP-9 may be more important in de-stabilizing established plaques rather than having a directly atherogenic effect.

A weak marker would fail to reject most of the test trees, not only the concatenation tree.

Survival analysis showed that the presence of K-Ras mutations diagnosed by direct sequencing are a weak prognostic marker of poorer outcome (median EFS 14 months vs 47 months, HR=1.57, CI 95%: 0.77 3.84, P=0.08).

TasP provides an additional compelling argument for improving access to viral load monitoring as CD4 is a weak surrogate marker of viral suppression.

His last, Dear Heather, was a weak effort, a marker of decline.

Neither study found any association between markers of liver damage (AST, ALT) and cellular immune function, although we did find a weak association between markers of liver damage and viraemia.

Empirical analyses in both non-clinical and clinical samples, have shown that conventionally regarded core symptoms of depression, such as sleep disturbance, changes in appetite, weight change, and loss of libido, are weak markers for the syndrome of depression [ 21].

As a surrogate marker of weak immunity, peripheral blood lymphopenia is associated with poor survival outcomes in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) [ 14].