Sentences with phrase «confounding factor in the case»

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† 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.

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.

In a prospective European case - cohort study stratified by sex, overall effects tended to be slightly stronger in men compared with women, although adjustment for confounding factors like obesity, physical activity, or educational level attenuated the association in men but strengthened it in women (135In a prospective European case - cohort study stratified by sex, overall effects tended to be slightly stronger in men compared with women, although adjustment for confounding factors like obesity, physical activity, or educational level attenuated the association in men but strengthened it in women (135in men compared with women, although adjustment for confounding factors like obesity, physical activity, or educational level attenuated the association in men but strengthened it in women (135in men but strengthened it in women (135in women (135).

In particular I don't understand what you mean by «integral factors» and «confounding factors» in this casIn particular I don't understand what you mean by «integral factors» and «confounding factors» in this casin this case.

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.

ENSO is a confounding factor of course because the tropical variability in the model is not correlated with the observed record (and is too weak in any case), but in the real world was coincident with both El Chichon and Pinatubo.