Gender, age and body mass index substantially influence reference values and should be corrected for when interpreting hyperaemic MBF values.
But inclusion of the unhealthy lifestyle index substantially increases explanatory power, particularly for large scale (LA-level) geographic variation.
In all instances combining risk factors into a risk index substantially improves statistical power compared to looking at RF's individually; however, in this example using a risk index with an AUROC <.6 does not achieve even moderate statistical power.
We found that when combined with cytology, pleural fluid DNA integrity index substantially increased the ability to distinguish benign effusions from MPE (sensitivity 81% vs. 55%) and mesothelioma (sensitivity. 81% vs. 31%).
In Lisbon, the average node index is higher than the place index, and the design index varies substantially across the subway network.
However, because BMI was strongly associated with vitamin D status (rs = −0.17; P < 0.0001), the observed associations of 25(OH)D3 with fasting plasma insulin and the HOMA indexes were substantially reduced after adjustment for BMI, sex, smoking status, and serum triacylglyceride concentration, where none of them were statistically significant (Table 3).
Conclusion Health risk adjustment using either the poverty index or the population health index performed substantially better in terms of explaining actual mortality than the indices that relied on diagnoses from administrative databases; the population health index explained the majority of residual variation in age, sex, and race adjusted mortality.
Among European centers (overall c-index 0.80) the c-indexes varied substantially with an interquartile range of 0.70 to 0.81.
At woefully inadequate sampling density, the probability of a biased-low survey index will substantially exceed the probability of a biased-high index.
These three indices had substantially larger χ values and slightly larger AUCs than the other indices, whereas non-HDLC had the largest χ value and TC had the largest AUC value (Table 2).
