In their analysis, the investigators took into
account known risk factors for physical decline, such as older age, smoking and obesity.
Not exact matches
After
accounting for all other
known risk factors, «you see a progressive increase in cancer rates for each unit increase in BMI above 21,» he told Science News Online.
After they statistically
accounted for smoking, family history, and other
factors known to increase high blood pressure
risk, the researchers found that women who adhered to a healthy diet were 20 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who did not.
Taking into
account such heart
risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol diminished the association between dairy fats and heart attacks, also
known as myocardial infarctions.
The researchers found that the association between DDT and high blood pressure held after
accounting for some
factors known to raise the
risk of hypertension, including age, race, body mass and diabetes status.
In the study, the
risks were adjusted to
account for several
known factors that could influence the
risk of death, including ethnicity; smoking status; intake of alcohol, fruits and vegetables and total calories; family history of chronic diseases; physical activity; body mass index; and heart disease
risk factors when participants enrolled.
Factors already
known at the start of pregnancy
accounted for only a small proportion of the overall
risk of stillbirth.
He also points out that most variation in CRP levels is
accounted for by well -
known, modifiable
risk factors for heart disease — such as being overweight and having type 2 diabetes.
The
known risk factors for breast cancer development (including family history, genetics, and prolonged exposure to estrogen)
account for only 30 % of women diagnosed with breast cancer.
While complex statistical methods are often used to «control» or «
account» for students» levels of
risk or
risk factors, much debate exists about the extent to which such statistical controls,
no matter how sophisticated, indeed work (e.g., to partly / wholly eliminate «bias»).
After adjusting the data to
account for
known cardiovascular disease
risk factors — such as smoking, physical activity, weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels and diabetes — the researchers found no statistically significant association in the
risk for cardiovascular disease between the highest levels of cocoa consumption and the lowest.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to uncover the association between maternal — infant relationship qualities (sensitivity, control, unresponsiveness) and childhood AD after
accounting for
risk (maternal depression, anxiety and stress) and protective (social support)
factors and well -
known covariates.
However, it is not
known whether the shared
risk factors mechanism of several
factors mentioned by these authors (e.g., temperamental variables, family adversity) does in fact
account for patterns of comorbidity.