Sentence examples for markers for illness from inspiring English sources

As death is more likely to occur relatively soon after discharge, models that include markers for illness severity at the time of hospital presentation 11 40 have shown excellent ability to predict short term mortality.

As increased blood lactate concentration is a marker for illness severity in critically ill patients [22], our results are in line with studies showing that membrane depolarization in critically ill patients is directly correlated with severity of illness [6 8].

Studies such as these have led to controversy as to whether acidosis is merely a marker for illness severity or whether it is itself in causal pathway of critical illness.

In contrast, for those who had not been treated previously, significant predictors of greater probability of treatment discontinuation were not individual characteristics including number of symptoms as a marker for illness severity but rather care seeking pathways like the number of providers seen for the current episode of TB treatment and payment for treatment and related costs.

We adjusted for markers of illness severity to evaluate the independent relationship between hyperoxemia and 6-month mortality.

However, after adjusting for markers of illness severity in a multivariate logistic regression model hyperoxemia showed no independent relationship with 6-month mortality (hyperoxemia vs. normoxemia OR 0.88, 95% CI 0. 63 to 1.22, P = 0.43; hyperoxemia vs. hypoxemia OR 0.97, 95% CI 0.63 to 1.50, P = 0.90).

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4 Studies have tended to focus on single risk markers for mental illnesses yielding relatively low estimates of subsequent disorders.

Until such time as we have markers for any illnesses that there may be among these disorders, it will not be possible to establish the incidence or prevalence of any mental illnesses in community samples in these age groups.

As a consequence, our ability to demonstrate the survival benefit of any intervention to prevent BSI will be dependent on the baseline incidence of BSI, the mortality rate of patients who develop it, and, crucially, on its true independent influence on outcome once correction has been made for other markers of illness severity.

Together, our findings provide insights into the substrates of anatomical dysconnectivity patterns for schizophrenia and highlight the potential for connectome-based metrics as neural markers of illness progression and clinical change with treatment.