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In view of this, interest has turned to the study of infant siblings of children with autism, in an attempt to discover early markers of the condition (7,20).
The influence of maternal education, birth weight and trunk length on cognition found is not confounded by current markers of socioeconomics condition presented in this paper.
Only the vasculitides that involve arterioles, capillaries and venules give rise to production of autoantibodies, which can serve as practical surrogate markers of the condition in question.
Recently, in a study conducted in the USA, the ICD-9-CM codes for pneumonia demonstrated their validity as markers of this condition (positive predictive value was 88%).
The number of surgical procedures, white cell count, and serum albumin levels are clinical markers of patients' condition during the index admission and the frailty of the patients [ 12], respectively.
Microarray experiments have been extensively used to define signatures, which are sets of genes that can be considered markers of experimental conditions (typically diseases).
Surrogate markers of both conditions were calculated from OGTTs.
We further investigated the expressions of COX-2 and NK-1 mRNA, two commonly detected markers of pain conditions in a variety of pain models [ 22, 23], at different time points.
Furthermore, we were also concerned that the markers of systemic conditions (diabetes, BMD, urinary albumin) we included in our analyses may not be confounders but rather intermediates in the relation of Cd exposure to periodontal disease.
