Anemia is a common condition in CKD that has been identified as a cardiovascular (CV) risk factor in end-stage renal disease, constituting a predictor of low survival.
CRP thus constitutes a good predictor of chronic inflammation for a variety of different disease populations, despite its inherent limitations.
Plasma CT-proET-1 constitutes a novel predictor of increased 12-month cardiovascular mortality in patients with CHF, independently of disease severity and plasma NT-proBNP.
Plasma CT-proET-1 constitutes a novel predictor of increased 12-month cardiovascular mortality in patients with CHF.
We recently reported that plasma leptin reduction, combined with the degree of initial weight loss and with genetic variations in the leptin gene, constitutes a significant predictor of subsequent long-term weight regain (6).
Early deep sedation is associated with worse outcomes and constitutes an independent predictor of hospital mortality in a prospective cohort of mechanically ventilated patients.
Early deep sedation is associated with adverse outcomes and constitutes an independent predictor of hospital mortality in mechanically ventilated patients.
Initial sensitivity to nicotine constitutes an early predictor of the vulnerability to developing nicotine dependence among novice smokers [ 72– 72].
In particular miR-10b, highly expressed in metastatic HCC tissues and cell lines, constitutes an independent predictor of poor prognosis in patients, promoting migration and metastasis in human hepatocarcinoma cells [ 99].
In a cohort of critically ill patients, the maximum measured concentration of cf-DNA in the first 4 days in the ICU but not the levels at admission correlates with mortality and constitutes an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality [ 12].
