ALT is often performed together with a test for AST or as part of a liver panel. For more about ALT results in relation to other liver tests, see the Liver Panel article. In most types of liver diseases, the ALT level is higher than AST and the AST/ALT ratio will be low (less than 1).
<a href=https://explorable.com/descriptive-research-design>Descriptive Research Design</a>. Descriptive research design is a scientific method which involves observing and describing the behavior of a subject without influencing it in any way. This article is a part of the guide: . Many scientific disciplines, especially social science and psychology, use this method to obtain a general overview of the subject.
Qualitative Research. Qualitative research gathers information that is not in numerical form. For example, diary accounts, open-ended questionnaires, unstructured interviews and unstructured observations. Qualitative data is typically descriptive data and as such is harder to analyze than quantitative data. Qualitative research is useful for studies at the individual level, and to find out, in depth, the ways in which people think or feel (e.g. case studies).