Standardized Waist Circumference; Standardized Blood Pressure; Standardized Glucose; Standardized High Density Lipropotein Cholesterol; Standardized Triglycerides.
While the INVEST protocol tried to minimize measurement error by providing to all site investigators standardized blood pressure measurement instructions following JNC VI guidelines [ 34], some measurement error is unavoidable.
These will be performed by physicians involved in the study and will be comprised of questionnaires, standardized blood pressure measurements, and reviews of recent dialysis sessions and laboratory work (see Table 1).
Molina et al. and Fruscalzo and Schmitz proposed a similar approach to that proposed by our group, demonstrating the reliability of quantitative elastography but failing to find the way to standardize the applied pressure needed for translating the tool to the clinical practice [ 13, 14].
Only blood pressure (standardized β-coefficient: systolic blood pressure 0.19, P = 0.001; diastolic blood pressure 0.14, P = 0.007) and FPG (standardized β-coefficient 0.16, P = 0.02) were independently associated with CAC progression (Table 3).
By exposing animals that were used to produce the EST libraries to standardized selection pressures, we identified candidate EST potentially underlying responses to environmental stress.
We developed three EST libraries using clonal lineages of D. magna exposed to standardized selection pressures, namely fish predation, exposure to parasites (Pasteuria ramosa), and exposure to pesticides (carbaryl).
Important explosibility parameters (e.g., maximum explosion pressure and standardized maximum rate of pressure rise) are described in terms of their relation to explosion causation, prevention and mitigation.
Hospitals, doctors, and nurses, under increasing pressure to standardize care, are managed from the top down; treatments are determined by "pathways" and "algorithms".
