Sentence examples for lower cutoff level from inspiring English sources

But at a lower cutoff level of 2.5 pmol/L, copeptin had a sensitivity of > 90%.

The choice of a higher or lower cutoff level for screening therefore depended on the potential for obtaining higher false positives and false negatives.

As the increase in screen-positive findings would be in the low PSA range, where prostate cancer prevalence is likely to be low and FP results more common than at higher PSA levels, adopting a lower cutoff level is likely to reduce specificity.

A positive correlation of CD44+/CD24- cells to signature A was seen if the cutoff level for CD44+/CD24- was 50% or 75% positive cells (P = 0.05 and P = 0.008, respectively) but not when using lower cutoff levels.

Because the increased rate of patients categorized as acute MI is mainly reflected MI type 2, the ED triage decision at lower cutoff levels of cTnT levels should include patient history, physical examination, 12-lead ECG and cardiac imaging.

Where the few pregnancy-specific adaptations have been made it will be noted (lower creatinine cutoff levels and platelet counts in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy).

Although all the control subjects had lower values than this cutoff level, this was not a genuine threshold value for detecting EFL.

Interestingly, the difference in diagnostic performance according to anatomical site in this restricted setting occurred only when sensitivity was increased by shifting the cutoff level to lower levels (i.e., lower specificity), but was not observed at higher, clinically relevant cutoff levels (i.e., at levels yielding specificities well above 90%).

By using the conditional logistic regression analysis, the odds ratios for lower than predetermined cutoff levels in patients receiving dialysis were significant for vitamin C, potassium, and the 2 previously mentioned carotenoids (odds ratio between 3.50 and 7.50, P <.05).

When the cutoff level is lowered, which allows individuals with a weaker source of bleeding to test positive as well, then sensitivity is higher for left-sided than for right-sided advanced neoplasia.

Aspergillosis and toxoplasmosis serum samples provided non-specific reactions with rHsp83, but the values were near the cutoff level and had lower positivity than has been observed in other studies.