Thus, our data suggest that CFI and GEF values are surrogate markers of global cardiac function but not LV-EF, hence cardiac contractility.
For most gymnasts, their coaches are surrogate fathers or mothers.
For many people who are on their own at Christmas, there are surrogate families.
Two still-life subjects of cosmetics and toiletries by Barbara Hirsch Lember are surrogate portraits of her mother.
Shop-window mannequins got up in conical hats, feet encased in rainbow socks and Birkenstocks (fascist hippies), robes embroidered with Smiley badges (fascist Christians, or Californians, or clubbers… take your pick), they are surrogate visitors, earnestly examining the art.
Older people view post-retirement as the next stage in their life; many grandparents are surrogate parents to their grandchildren; medical advances and greater affluence will continue to extend life.
Teachers are surrogate parents with a similar socializing influence as students' parents (Herring and Wahler 2003).
Nevertheless, we should keep in mind that radiographic parameters are surrogate endpoints and their clinical relevance remains disputed [36, 37].
Metamodels are surrogate models of an existing model that provide an approximate relationship between a set of input process variables and output response variables.
Serum parathyroid hormone (PTH), phosphorus, and calcium levels are surrogate outcomes that are central to the evaluation of drug treatments in chronic kidney disease (CKD).
However, MMSE and other measures of cognitive decline are surrogate end-points, and their use in cost-effectiveness analysis has been questioned [53], as it is difficult to establish a cost per incremental change on such a scale.
