Thus, they are presented as the means ± standard deviations. To learn whether and how serum creatinine, BUN and uric acid levels were associated with fasting serum homocysteine level, regression modeling was adopted. To eliminate the effect of multicollinearity on the results, internal ...
Level of the CPK enzyme in the blood (CPK) Diabetes If the patient has diabetes Ejection fraction Percentage of blood leaving the heart at each contraction Sex Woman or man Platelets Platelets in the blood Serum creatinine Level of creatinine in the blood Serum sodium Level of sodium in the ...
Figure 1. Flow chart of nutrition intervention for patients Table 1. The clinical characteristics of patients with AIS CharacteristicsPatients (n =217) Demographics Age in years,median (IQR) 68.00 (59.00, 75.00) Male, n (%) 139 (64.10) Smoking, n (%) 32 (14.70) Drinking, n (%) 27 ...
Sodium is a mineral that serves for the correct functioning of muscles and nerves. The serum sodium test is a routine blood exam that indicates if a patient has normal levels of sodium in the blood. An abnormally low level of sodium in the blood might be caused by heart failure [70]. ...
Two thousand seven hundred and fifty six had plasma creatinine levels in excess of 133 μmol/L but 1653 were excluded because they met one or more exclusion criteria, leaving 1103 patients for definitive inclusion (Fig. 1). Fig. 1 Study Flow-chart – Patients admitted with plasma creatinine ...