The World Bank defines a decline of more than 8percentt in household living standards as high or "severe"; four to eight percent as moderate; and zero to four percent as low.
In addition to the outcomes of re-admission and death, we define a decline in health status as a 10% reduction in overall quality of life as measured by the SF-12 [ 25].
Both define a declining trend.
We defined a strong decline in health post hoc as an average decrease of more than four points per year in the given SF-12 component score (the four points per year is roughly identical with the tenth percentile).
If a participant change in Care Needs Level was calculated to be greater than zero or equal to zero when the subject remained at Care Level 5 throughout all study periods, this was defined as a decline in dependency level was defined and coded as decline in functional status.
ERFD was defined using the method outlined by Perkins and Krolewski (13), defined as a decline in cystatin C based eGFR of ≥3.3% per year.
Treatment success was defined by a decline of VL below the limit of detection (i.e. 50 copies per ml) or increase of CD4+ T-cells by 50% or more compared to the baseline measurement.
(A bear market is typically defined as a decline of 20percentt or more).
A correction is defined as a decline of 10percentt from recent highs.
Hypoxia, defined as a decline in O2 levels below normoxic levels of 20.8 - 20.95%, results in metabolic adaptation at both the cellular and organismal level.
