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Disconnect of type 2 biomarkers in severe asthma; dominated by FeNO as a predictor of exacerbations and periostin as predictor of reduced lung function. Respir Med. 2018;143:31-8. 6. Wang K et al. Using fractional exhaled nitric oxide to guide step-down treatment decisions in patients with ...
Once the data collection portion of the cardiopulmonary exercise test has been completed, the final task is to interpret the results of the test. This section of the primer provides general information regarding test interpretation as well as suggestions
The last decade has seen rapid progress in the use of genomic tests, including gene panels, whole-exome sequencing, and whole-genome sequencing, in research and clinical cancer care. These advances have created expansive opportunities to characterize the molecular attributes of cancer, revealing a s...
To formally evaluate whether the PH assumption holds, several tests can be applied; for example, the Schoenfeld residuals.16 Although the PH assumption is met for most studies, it is occasionally violated,17 which renders the results uninterpretable.9,11,15 In multivariable analyses, the PH ...
Since the K-L divergence is not a signed measure, we omitted tests for negative expression differences from the evaluations, which was roughly half of the total number of possible tests for differential expression. We performed 20 simulations with K=2 topics and n=200 cells and another 20 ...
While microbiological tests are used to diagnose TB, chest X-ray (CXR) has long been employed for screening and assisting diagnosis, given its high sensitivity and cost-effectiveness. Prevalence surveys conducted in 33 high TB-burden African and Asian countries showed that 30–79% of people with...
A variety of alternative two-sample tests have been used in previous publications, including median permutation tests (Brough et al., 2011b, Campbell et al., 2016) and mutual information based measures (Cowley et al., 2014). The Mann-Whitney U test has a number of advantages for CancerGD...
Pulmonary function testsPulmonary function testing is often considered the basis for diagnosis in many categories of pulmonary disease. Although most of the testing methodologies are well established and widely employed, there are still many questions regarding how tests should be performed, how to ...
Since the K-L divergence is not a signed measure, we omitted tests for negative expression differences from the evaluations, which was roughly half of the total num- ber of possible tests for differential expression. We performed 20 simulations with K = 2 topics and n = 200 cells and ...