The clinical explanation for PLR and NLR suggested that it could be nearly four times more likely for a patient to have sepsis with a positive presepsin result and only one-fourth for a patient with a negative presepsin result.
Some have likened food addiction to drug addiction, and then used this term to associate it with overeating, and as a clinical explanation for the obesity epidemic, implicating millions of people.
As it is often not easy to give a clinical explanation for a test result directly from the AUC value, which indicates an overall accuracy for diagnosis, we provided a more understandable clinical explanation of the results of the pooled positive likelihood ratio (PLR: 3.4) and the negative likelihood ratio (NLR: 0.22).
Similarly there is no obvious clinical explanation for the slightly increased rate of spontaneous labour prior to 39 weeks for women with two or more prior caesarean sections.
Some patients will have a clinical explanation for a low serum AAT level, including protein energy malnutrition, protein losing states (nephropathy, protein losing enteropathy), and liver disease.
Given the couple's history of consanguinity and no definitive clinical explanation for the medical symptoms, DNA samples from all three foetuses and parents were tested by whole-exome sequence analysis as part of a clinical research study.
5 7 13 The first aim of our study therefore was to determine whether or not there is a methodological or clinical explanation for this decline in risk and, if so, what the relative contributions might be.
The present study observed significant differences in the percentages of patients with respect to blood type and Rh factor, although there was no clinical explanation for this [ 34, 35].
A possible clinical explanation for this unique pattern is that in non-elderly patients, very severe pneumonia cases are mostly not very responsive to the level of variations in the treatments reflected in hospital case volume, with outcome depending much more on the patient's baseline status, including comorbidities and pneumonia severity.
