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Discover LudwigThe phrase "above normal value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as statistics, health assessments, or any situation where values are compared to a standard or average.
Example: "The patient's blood pressure reading was recorded as an above normal value, indicating potential health concerns."
Alternatives: "higher than average value" or "elevated value".
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Carvalho et al. [ 15] in a study conducted in a pediatric intensive care unit found that increased heart rate >2 SD above normal value for age occurred in 85% of SIRS patients, abnormal leukocyte count in 77%, and increased respiratory frequency >2 SD above normal value of age in 47.5%.
7– 9 WCs above normal value are more of a risk factor for metabolic syndrome than BMI, 10 and weighted evidence indicates that WC coupled with BMI predicts health risk better than BMI alone.
Strikingly, in a recent real-life cohort of 172 UC and CD patients treated by vedolizumab, an elevated CRP above normal value was the only predictor of lack of response to induction with vedolizumab [ 15].
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Plasma concentration (as assessed by fluorescence intensity) of the majority of cytokines/chemokines was above normal values and closely correlated with each other.
Thus, the frequency and subset composition of T cells with regulatory function was unaffected by TCDD exposure, although TCDD levels were still 10,000 times above normal values.
Similarly, plasmatic glucose was above normal values.
Glycemia was still above normal values but nonetheless had decreased (145 ± 31 mg/dl, n = 2).
NT-proBNP was increased above normal values (Table 1 ) and correlated to peak VO2 (Table 2 ).
In parallel, BNP decreased at day 7 though it remained above normal values.
Elevation of serum creatine kinase (CK) levels was considered when they increased above normal values.
When using permissive hypercapnia, PaCO2 (arterial CO2 partial pressure) was allowed to increase above normal values [ 18].
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