Sentences with phrase «confounding because»

Although we controlled for several lifestyle factors associated with intakes of PHVOs and non-HVOs, residual confounding because of unknown confounding factors can not be excluded.

However, we believe that the GI is less susceptible than whole grains to residual confounding because the GI is less recognized as a health factor.

Measuring the age of the cave paintings found across Europe is confounding because most images are made from inorganic pigments that leave few clues.

Turaki Vanguard, in a statement signed in Abuja yesterday by its coordinator of the group, Dimeji Fabiyi, said, «We are alarmed to read the account of Mr. Segun Adewale on the crisis bedevilling the erstwhile ruling Peoples Democratic Party and our consternation is more confounding because of the witless attempt by the factional chairman of the PDP in Lagos State to string the Turakin Adamawa to the crisis in the PDP.

On the other, the analysis can be confounded because users may be biased, or have multiple accounts, or be using corporate accounts.

Also, referring to these multimodel ensembles (MME), IPCC (2013 9 - 17) states, «the sample size of MME's is small, and is confounded because some climate models have been developed by sharing model components leading to shared biases.

If PAE causes externalizing problems, the association will be found at all levels, especially within mothers (ie, siblings exposed to higher levels of prenatal alcohol would have more problems than their siblings exposed to lower levels).26 The comparison of siblings explicitly controls for maternal genetic confounds because PAE is not correlated with genetic risk within mothers.

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And just as confounding was the way U.S. stocks surged in the aftermath — because implicit in that surge was a belief that a Trump administration could overcome some very challenging economic obstacles.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

It may be unfair to single him out, but I have become familiar with his work mainly because several of my investment and academic friends in Australia seem to delight in sending me his articles and making witty comments about how economists can take data that confounds their forecasts and use it to confirm their analysis.

We start out trusting our parents completely — even when they tell us seemingly confounding or ridiculous things — and overall that's good, because they're right way more often than not.

But Jesus confounds everyone, because h inspects a coin which literally is the property of Caesar's.

God, at the beginning of the Bible, walking in a garden in the cool of the day, making a woman from a man's rib, confounding men's speech lest they build a tower too high, trying to slay a man at a wayside inn because his child was not circumcised, or dwelling on Mt. Sinai, where he says to Moses, «You shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen,» is a very different deity from the one you find at the Bible's end, «God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.»

However, for Crossan (and to some extent Borg) the Jesus of history was the center of a Galilean Camelot, the halcyon days when Jesus and his band roamed the countryside, disregarding societal structures, defying hierarchical patterns, irritating elites and confounding the powerful, creating a grass - roots movement with nobodies while at the same time refusing to be its leader or mediator of the New because that would be brokering the kingdom.

A baby who is born early may have more trouble nursing either because of a lack of mature sucking ability or other confounding medical issues.

Because socio - economic status predicts both likelihood of breastfeeding and positive health outcomes, it (SES) confounds the results.

Because type of milk and feeding mode were confounded by each other, examining bottle effects among infants fed by breastmilk only and examining breastmilk effects among infants fed by bottle only would be useful to tease out this confounding effect (Figure).

However, the breastfeeding - obesity link has been questioned because of several confounding factors, 1 including maternal habits during gestation and breastfeeding as well as the mother's metabolic health status (obesity and diabetes), race, and ethnicity.

Limitations of the study included low response rate for control families, higher socioeconomic status in participants vs. nonparticipants, possible residual confounding despite multivariate analysis, and possible recall bias because of retrospective design.

We examined the potential confounding effects of home tap water As concentration and sex, but because these factors were unrelated to urinary As concentrations, we report only the models including specific gravity.

† Because many of the case - control studies demonstrated a protective effect of breastfeeding against SIDS in univariate analysis but not when confounding factors were taken into account, 62,184,198,231,238 these results suggested that factors associated with breastfeeding, rather than breastfeeding itself, are protective.

Restricting our sample to first - time mothers may have allowed us to see this relation more clearly, because one would expect younger maternal age to be confounded by primiparity.

Second, because almost all of the studies examining this association were observational, there was a possibility of confounding, particularly by familial and socioeconomic circumstances, which could not be taken into account with the published data available.

Confounding by other known dietary factors was unlikely because the risk estimates were influenced only slightly by adjustments for covariates, eg, the amount of gluten consumed.

SIDS, the most terrifying acronym in the parental lexicon, is the death of an otherwise healthy infant that can not be explained by thorough investigation; it is heartbreaking, confounding, and all the more frightening because there is no reason.

Because the study design leaves open the possibility of confounding variables that were not measured, the results can not be definitively interpreted as causal evidence that PMI reduced child mortality rates.

This did confound the field for a while because with traditional therapies an expanding tumor is a sign of failure.

«Glucose is a tricky molecule to monitor because other factors can confound a signal,» Prasad said.

The researchers note that these findings need to be viewed with caution because they are based on anonymized aggregate outcomes, which do not allow adjustments for confounding patient characteristics, such as donor and recipient ages, infertility diagnosis, and embryo stage.

In the Lyme disease system, the researchers got around this confounding factor by looking at diversity in the unexpressed cassettes, which would not have been the object of direct selection because they have no known function on their own; they simply exist as a way of increasing the potential diversity of the VlsE protein.

This provoked a strong rebuttal by wildlife ecologist Graeme Caughley, who suggested that because the factors that may have resulted in this irruption were «hopelessly confounded,» a case study of the Kaibab provided an ineffective example of top - down control.

DiChristina: I was just going to say, that's one thing also what occurred to me is that to me is a lesson in microcosm — because it's just a paragraph what Steve just read to everybody — that shows why it's so important in science to remove all your confounds, you know, remove all the variables so that you can find really what is at the heart of thing, and to me that that's the lesson that science has much more thoroughly adopted probably at this point and can speak with, you know, much greater authority; when something actually is a finding you need to be able to remove all the potential things that could be interfering with the conclusion that you're trying to make.

Because these indicators reflect current standards of care, estimated differences are not at risk for confounding by maternal risk factors, rurality or level of service at the local hospital,» write the authors.

That study was challenged because data were collected at several institutions, and thus had numerous possibly confounding variables.

Because the study used cognitive stress as a challenge, it was not confounded by potential group differences in stimulant - induced changes in cerebellar radiotracer delivery.

This estimate is the best available, though it likely represents a conservative approximation because it is based on basal metabolic rates and allometric relationships; furthermore, among other confounds, these whales in Wilhelmina are theoretically eating as much as possible to prepare for winter.

Because PMI dependent expression changes are largely tissue - specific, they could confound tissue differential gene expression since the observed effects could be caused by differential response to PMI rather than by differences in tissue biology.

I'm hesitant to use the word «superfood» because the word is so over-used in modern times and also because there are some confounding factors that may inhibit nutrient use.

We considered this a critical aspect of the study design because our primary goal was to determine the effect of the diet per se on total glycated hemoglobin, without the confounding effect of weight loss (or gain) or a reduced (or increased) food - energy intake.

Because lifestyle factors associated with inflammatory mortality are not well explored, residual confounding also can not be precluded.

Because the examined associations could be confounded by the use of antiinflammatory medication, information on all currently taken medications was considered to determine the use of systemic corticosteroids and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs.

Because pain often stems from a variety of confounding factors not solely emerging from physical misalignment or injury, we yogis look toward methods for physical and spiritual, or psychosomatic, healing.

They're giving refined diets rich in industrial seed oil because that's the simplest way to modify PUFA content while minimizing confounding variables that might change the results (like selenium and astaxanthin in salmon or vitamin E and magnesium in almonds).

Because we have come to expect that autophagy and apoptosis will increase during fasting does the increased loss of N during the first days of fasting result in significant reduction in muscular functionality or is it a result confounded by multiple mechanisms?

But determining the optimal intake range of carbohydrates is difficult, because unlike the other macronutrients there is no data that lacks confounding factors.

s angle was, because whoever wrote the headline seems as confounded as I am by this, but my god, reading Bacon's account of her routine and diet is like staring into a wound in the universe.

Finally, these studies should be interpreted with caution, because confounding may exist, as is usually the case with cross-sectional associations.

We stopped updating diet at the beginning of the time interval during which individuals developed cancer (except nonmelanoma skin cancer), cardiovascular diseases, or gestational diabetes because changes in diet after development of these conditions may confound the relationship between diet and diabetes (21).

It has been suggested that the positive associations reported in case - control studies may have resulted from recall bias or confounding by factors such as smoking.19, 34 However, because we observed an association between coffee and risk of MI among carriers of the * 1F allele, and not among those homozygous for the * 1A allele, the associations between coffee and MI are unlikely due to recall bias or residual confounding.

Because I don't blog for money, the field is wide open... which is both liberating but also confounding.