The phrase "and lower baselines of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing standards, measurements, or thresholds, particularly in fields like research, statistics, or project management.
Example: "The study aims to identify the factors that influence both upper and lower baselines of performance metrics."
Alternatives: "and reduced thresholds of" or "and diminished standards of".
When comparing high and low complication categories, statistically significant differences were present for number of levels of surgery addressed (2.7 vs 1.6), higher levels of reported baseline disability, and lower baseline levels of reported quality of life (both MCS and PCS).
Similar to previous findings [ 8, 9], planned dialysis was associated with higher baseline levels of serum hemoglobin, calcium and albumin and lower baseline levels of serum urea, creatinine and phosphate [ 10, 12, 13].
Consequently, patients receiving DES in our study, by virtue of selection bias, had more stable coronary artery disease and lower baseline risk of thrombotic or restenotic events.
Better baseline function, physical and mental health, and lower baseline level of pain were associated with better outcomes at 12 months.
Several factors are known to increase individual susceptibility to APAP, such as increased CYP2E1 activity and lower baseline levels of glutathione.
Patients with QCA- and IVUS-defined plaque progression had higher baseline levels of fasting blood glucose, 2-h postprandial blood glucose, HbA1c, and LDL cholesterol and lower baseline levels of HDL cholesterol than those without (Table 2).
Our results suggest that subjects who had a longer history of practicing a GI program at home once daily for 20 min showed higher baseline scores of their positive mood on MMS, image vividness on QMI and general health, and lower baseline scores of their negative mood on MMS and general stress than subjects who had shorter or no history of GI at home.
The intervention group had higher Triage Risk Screening Tool (TRST) scores (34.3% vs 25.4% TRST ≥3, p = 0.01) and lower baseline Instrumental Activity of Daily Living (IADL) scores (22.84 vs 24.18, p < 0.01).
Our findings of older age and lower baseline eGFR being the predictors of new onset CKD reaffirmed similar findings in previous studies, which showed that renal function declines as we age.
Previous local studies had identified older age and lower baseline CD4 counts as predictors of progression to AIDS 9 and that the commonest AIDS-defining illnesses between 1985 and 2001 did not involve the central nervous system.
