Hybrid imaging with 18F-FDG PET and either CTA or MRA allows more precise anatomic localisation of disease activity with increased uptake of 18F-FDG thought to be a surrogate marker of increased activity of inflammatory cells.
Its potential usefulness as a marker of increased genetic predisposition to schizophrenia requires further investigation.
In conclusion, IAH was at least a marker of increased ICU morbidity and mortality in cirrhotic patients with SS.
Several studies on pediatric and adult population proposed measurment of optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) as a noninvasive marker of increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
Because radiologic data and ventilator settings were unavailable, PaO2/FiO2 was used as a surrogate marker of increased lung permeability and ARDS.
This suggests that progressive platelet activation after the initial insult may be a marker of increasing endothelial injury, thus indicating a more severe illness [[20]].
There is epidemiologic evidence that this impaired ability to initiate, maintain, and ultimately achieve good quality, optimal sleep may be a marker of increased mortality and neurocognitive dysfunction.
Loop diuretics were excluded from the exposure definition since these drugs are typically prescribed for different indications and are a marker of increased short-term mortality in to older adults (Glynn et al. 2001).
Percent fluid overload is a marker of increased vascular leakage and was calculated at 6, 12, 24, and 48 h after inclusion using the following formula: (fluid intake − fluid output)/(body weight (kg))*100 [11] 11].
In our study MetS was not able to predict LVH independently of BMI, the most used, widespread and clinically useful marker of increased adiposity.
