Sentences with phrase «for confounders»

Results: After adjustment for confounders, breast feeding was associated with significantly less diarrhoeal disease.

By the latter, Price laid out his intention to compare isolated and modernized subgroups of various «racial stocks» to control for confounders such as heredity, culture, climate, altitude, and latitude, and hoped to include disease - free populations that could be compared to populations ravaged by disease.

«In the first year of life, after adjusting for confounders, there were 2033 excess office visits, 212 excess days of hospitalization, and 609 excess prescriptions for these three illnesses per 1000 never - breastfed infants compared with 1000 infants exclusively breastfed for at least 3 months.

The new approach uses an algorithm that automatically identifies and adjusts for confounders as well as or better than the most knowledgeable scientist can, says Jeremy Rassen, one of the algorithm's creators.

This was, IIRC, despite attempting to correct for confounders.

Adjustment for confounders did not alter these conclusions.

These were large scale, well done observational studies that were corrected as well as humanly possible for confounders.

A study that does not adequately account for confounders runs the risk of having bias that influences the findings.

Although they attempted to adjust for confounders like this, the methods used mean the authors can not control for all residual issues.

A further major limitation of this analysis is the reliance on published data, which precluded more detailed analysis of the effect of adjustment for confounders at an individual level or for specific confounders separately.

Using the SDQ prosocial scale, before adjustment for confounders, involvement was associated with lower risks of behaviour problems in both boys and girls for mothers, but only in boys for fathers (Table 6).

Among women, the total WCC were significantly higher in smokers, compared with non-smokers (p < 0.001) and former smokers (p < 0.001), and the differences remained significant after controlling for confounders.

Second, in order to compare countries, you must correct for confounders.

For this analysis, we choose total allergy as the outcome variable, and adjusted for confounders as previously described in the Methods section (model 2 and model 4).

Adjustment for the confounders had little effect on the odds ratio for the association between emotional difficulties and membership to the infrequent persistent class.

The studies about long - term health benefits for term infants are rendered useless by the inability to control for confounders.

Multiple logistic regression was used to control for confounders.

In their own abstract, they write: «An important limitation of the study is that aggregated data of a large birth registry database were used and adjustment for confounders and clustering was not possible.»

Because we could not adjust for confounders, we compared the prevalence of several risk factors between women at low risk in primary care and women at high risk in secondary care, using data from the national perinatal registry.

Preferable citations from peer reviewed studies that controlled for confounders.

In addition, some recent cohort studies provided detailed information of adjustment for confounders, whereas some early case - control studies adjusted for fewer factors.

However, following an adjustment for confounders, no associations remained significant.

After adjustment for confounders, annual healthcare costs per individual with incident diabetes were significantly lower in the screening group than the no - screening group across all healthcare sectors and for redeemed medication: annual difference in inpatient care costs − $ 662 (95 % CI − $ 865, − $ 459), outpatient care costs − $ 82 (95 % CI − $ 157, − $ 7), primary care costs − $ 51, (95 % CI − $ 63, − $ 38) and pharmaceuticals − $ 94 (95 % CI − $ 111, − $ 76).

Refugees were at increased risk of psychosis compared with both the Swedish - born population (adjusted hazard ratio 2.9, 95 % confidence interval 2.3 to 3.6) and non-refugee migrants (1.7, 1.3 to 2.1) after adjustment for confounders.

Risk of non-affective psychoses by migrant status after adjustment for confounders.

Results: Compared with pregnant women with low caffeine intake (< 50 mg / day, 46 %), women with average (50 — 199 mg / day, 44 %), high (≥ 200 — 299 mg / day, 7 %) and very high (≥ 300 mg / day, 3 %) caffeine intakes had an increased risk of their child experiencing excess growth in infancy, after adjustment for confounders (OR = 1.15, 95 % CI 1.09 to 1.22, OR = 1.30, 95 % CI 1.16 to 1.45, OR = 1.66, 95 % CI 1.42 to 1.93, respectively).

Backwards stepwise logistic regression was used to determine which factors were associated with antenatal smoking when adjusting for confounders.

After adjustment for confounders, 34 weeks» GL was the only measure associated with postnatal depressive symptoms: PR 1.09 per 100 GL units (95 % CI: 1.01 — 1.17).

A multiple regression model was constructed to identify parental factors that predicted adherence and glycemic control while controlling for confounders (patient age, sex, and treatment method).

There was a higher risk of affective problems between the ages of 5 and 17 years among children of women who were overweight and obese compared with the offspring of women in the healthy pre-pregnancy weight range (BMI 18.5 — 24.99) after adjustment for confounders, including paternal BMI.

However this study was rated as weak in quality with a cross-sectional design, possible selection bias with recruitment relying on response to advert and lack of control for confounders.

After adjustment for confounders, the stratum - specific adjusted odds ratios (95 % CI) of child mental health conditions related to a one - level decline in parent mental health were: 1.44 (1.35 — 1.55) for non-Hispanic whites, 1.24 (1.06 — 1.46) for non-Hispanic blacks, 1.04 (0.81 — 1.32) for Hispanics from non-immigrant families, 1.21 (0.96 — 1.93) for Hispanics from immigrant families, and 1.43 (1.21 — 1.70) for non-Hispanic otherrace children.