Sentences with phrase «eliminating known risk factors»

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«We know that antibiotics are major risk factors for C. diff infection because they alter the gut microbiota, or composition of bacteria in the gut, by eliminating the bacteria that are normally there,» says Casey Theriot, assistant professor of infectious disease at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the research.

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»).