S100A12 is becoming established as a sensitive and specific indictor of gut inflammation.
This could be considered the intuitive response by a GP on receiving an abnormal LFT in a patient without the indictors of a specific disease, and is the strategy recommended in the literature [ 1- 5].
Generally, it will be highly challenging to develop a coherent framework for deriving useful indictors that explains subject-specific strengths and weakness within profiles, between profiles and across countries.
Our study also reports specific biochemical markers that may be suitable indictors for identifying tracheostomy candidates.
For these reports, Policy Forum workshops are again organised in order to prioritise the specific focus of a report (such as those published on potential indictors of child vulnerability and the frequency of residential mobility (Morton et al. 2014a, b, 2015).
Since neither HBV DNA nor HBsAg at birth can be an indictor of HBV infection, a more sensitive and specific indicator is needed for early predicting HBV infection.
A set of voluntary targets and indictors have been agreed upon, although none of them are gender specific.
In response to the UN meeting, member states of WHO have agreed upon a global goal to reduce avoidable NCD mortality by 25% by 2025 ('25 by 25'), and a set of voluntary targets and indictors have also been agreed upon, although none of them are gender specific (17).
Of obesity-related indictors we looked at lipids, measures of glucose metabolism, a non-specific marker of inflammation and adipokines; however, our results did not clearly indicate any specific pathomechanical pathway.
On the contrary, some studies, that retrospectively assessed the sensitivity and specificity of this indictor, concluded that maternal weight gain alone is neither a sensitive nor a specific predictor of poor pregnancy outcomes [ 3].
