The model structure was similar to that of a Markov cohort model, with five main health states: mild, moderate, severe, and very severe (reflecting the severity of COPD) and a state for death (absorbing state).
The maximum level of plasma IL-6 associated strongly with several variables reflecting the severity of the disease.
In contrast, PCT performed best in a ROC analysis distinguishing between patients with sepsis and patients with severe sepsis, supporting other findings of PCT being a marker reflecting the severity of sepsis [ 21, 22].
The extension brings maximum state and federal unemployment compensation to 99 weeks, the longest ever, reflecting the severity of a recession that has thrown more people out of work for longer periods than at any other time since collection of such data began six decades ago, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Reflecting the severity of the recession, the number of workers who have been out of a job longer than that comprise about a third of the total unemployed — the highest share since data collection began in 1948, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal policy group.
In our study, the volume of urine output was decreased in the 2 groups reflecting the severity of our model.
The threshold of platelet count ensuring protection may be higher in sepsis patients, reflecting the severity of the disturbance of the vascular beds.
This system is based on six grades and four stages, reflecting the severity and extent of OA over the joint surface.
Recently, other groups and we have reported increased serum TNC in heart failure patients, reflecting the severity and progression of ventricular remodeling [12-15 [12-15
No factor reflecting the severity of illness as well as patients' deaths and decision of withholding/withdrawing had an impact on the presence of depressive symptoms.
Clinical and arthroscopic scores were attributed reflecting the severity of lesions and were related to the plasma levels of Coll2-1 and Coll2-1NO2.
