The phrase "altered prior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something has been changed or modified from a previous state or version.
Example: "The report was based on altered prior data that reflected the latest findings."
Alternatives: "modified earlier" or "changed previously".
But he disputed the context, writing that "many [government] applications are altered prior to final submission or even held from final submission entirely, often after an indication that a judge would not approve them".
To uncover targets directly responsible for motor neuron pathology in SBMA which are altered prior to the onset of symptoms, rather than dysregulated as a result of the disease, we undertook a transcriptomic analysis of cultured embryonic motor neurons of AR100 SBMA mice.
The results show that in critically ill patients with AI, iron metabolism is already altered prior to the development of anemia.
Thresholds for the minimal correlation and the number of singlet ions that are common in both the normalization bin and the correlation bin are user specified and can be altered prior to the process being started.
Given that a particular patient's ASA physical status can seldom be altered prior to surgery, the utility of this information is more beneficial in terms of budgeting and planning for patients undergoing open treatment of ankle fractures.
Possible mechanisms for consideration include that the balance of sympathetic and parasympathetic tone (which did not affect hemodynamic changes such as heart rate or blood pressure) would be altered prior to an increase in pain intensity.
The report also demonstrated that payers that use ICER analyses would be likely to alter prior authorization criteria or step edits to favor the most cost-effective product in a therapeutic class.
Hormonal serum levels alter prior to menopause, including follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), antimullerian hormone (AMH) and inhibin B. Of these, AMH is the best long-term predictor, with levels decreasing approximately 10 years before menopause (10, 11).
It has been suggested [ 5, 6, 21, 24] that passive exposure to cigarette smoking may alter prior associations seen when only active smoking was assessed, with increased risk being observed for passive smoking exposure.
In addition, C. elegans can be conditioned to prefer various bacteria based on their prior exposure, but this learning can be altered by prior feeding and experience [9]: starving nematodes are more discriminatory than well-fed worms [12].
Behavioral stress-responses are known to be altered by prior stress exposure depending on the nature of the prior stress, the stressfulness of the behavioral test and the individual variation in stress-responsiveness [ 18, 19].
