Sentence examples for more appropriate cutoff from inspiring English sources

Based on their analysis, a more appropriate cutoff for vitamin D deficiency would be much lower, 12.5 ng/mL.

We applied two cutoff values: 15.2 ng/ml, which has been approved by the US FDA; and 10.2 ng/ml, which has been suggested as a more appropriate cutoff value for the Korean population [ 31].

Separate MoMs must be generated for chromosomes 21, 18, and 13. Figure 3 compares the z-score with MoM for correctly classifying the pregnancies and allows for selecting potentially more appropriate cutoff levels for both interpretive units.

Since then, much work has been carried out to evaluate more appropriate cutoffs for aCL in relation to what is clinically significant [ 46].

In case of no distinguishing ability of the median in terms of OS, the plan was to proceed with an exploratory analysis to test if the 25th and 75th percentiles were more appropriate cutoffs.

Another approach that seems more appropriate is setting a cutoff at low exposures (e.g., 100 or 50 WLM) or including only a subgroup of workers with low exposure rates (e.g., those with a later begin of employment or millers; Supplementary Table 3).

We feel that with respect to the phenotype, the standard 10% g2p cutoff is more appropriate.

However, the more stringent 10 mm cutoff is more appropriate in this TB-endemic setting [ 18], given the potential for cross-reactivity with BCG vaccination and resulting misclassification, so the 10 mm cutoff was used for all further analyses.

In our investigation, a sensitivity of 65.7%, specificity of 37.5%, PPV of 89.8%, NPV of 11.5% and accuracy of 62.7% were obtained for a cutoff point of 7. In 2008, Sun et al. suggested that a cutoff point of 6 provides a higher sensitivity and NPV in the Alvarado system, and may be more appropriate in comparison with the traditional cutoff point of 7 [25].

When a single Widal agglutination titer is used for the diagnosis of enteric fever, it will be more appropriate to change the currently used cutoff levels against S. enterica serotype T yphi to > 1 80 for anti-O and > 1 160 for anti-H titers for Nepal.

Although recent guidelines consider same cutoffs for males and females at age 18 21 [ 24], sex-specific cutoffs could be more appropriate at the transition between adolescence and adulthood in view of the twofold higher prevalence of elevated BP in male than female young adults in our study, and this despite higher obesity in females than in males.