cutpoints

Noun

cutpoint (plural cutpoints)

1. A point of a connected space whose removal causes the resulting space to be disconnected.
   • Every point of a line is a cutpoint, but no point of a circle is a cutpoint.
2. A cutoff point; a threshold value.
   • In 2007 the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) proposed single blood pressure (BP) cutpoints (systolic: ≥130 mm Hg and diastolic: ≥85 mm Hg) for the diagnosis of high blood pressure (HBP) in adolescents. Before this proposal, HBP had been defined as BP at or above the 95th percentile for age...2017, P Brambilla, A Andreano, L Antolini, et al., “How Accurate Is a Single Cutpoint to Identify High Blood Pressure in Adolescents?”, in Am J Epidemiol, volume 185, number 4, →DOI, →PMID, pages...