A method of preventing or treating a disease, autoimmune disease or antibody mediated rejection in a patient in a patient in need thereof, wherein said disease is characterized by an elevated neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in the peripheral blood of the patient, which comprises administering to said patient a therapeutically effective amount of a ROR inverse agonist, its pharmaceutically acceptable salt or stereoisomers thereof, wherein said neutrophils express nuclear receptors (RORs) alpha (RORα or RORA) or gamma (RORC, RORy or RORγt).