Sentences with phrase «only weak associations»

Perhaps surprisingly, total cholesterol has only weak associations with heart disease and diabetes — weaker, in fact, than the correlation between these conditions and plant protein intake (+25 and +12, respectively).

The researchers concluded that only a few foods or dietary patterns have a significant impact on your risk for heart disease, whereas the vast majority of things that we dietitians typically recommend have only weak associations — or may even lack sufficient evidence to say that these foods impact heart disease at all.

«[U] ntil recently [for example] only a weak association has been accepted for the role of milk and dairy products in acne [formation].»

Not exact matches

In the captive populations, the birds also had strong associations with one or two other individuals, numerous more moderate relationships, and only a few that were weak.

The work by Wang and co-workers that Simopoulos and DiNicolantonio place at the heart of their argument in fact showed only relatively weak associations between red cell polyunsaturated fatty acid levels and weight gain in humans, and the findings were described by the study's authors as only «suggestive».

The association was weak overall and significant only for women younger than sixty.

Some studies have found only weak or no association between high trans fat intake and heart disease, though:

In men, only a weak nonsignificant association was present.

Of the four relevant correlations, only one was significant, providing only weak evidence of an association.

The only other association that reached statistical significance was between categories of maternal 1 - h glucose and a BMI Z score at 2 years ≥ 85th percentile (χ2 for trend = 5.32, df = 1, P = 0.017), but the overall correlation between maternal glucose during pregnancy and BMI Z score at age 2 years was weak (fasting glucose r = 0.05, P = 0.08; 1 - h glucose r = 0.04, P = 0.22; 2 - h glucose r = 0.03, P = 0.36; and area under the curve r = 0.04, P = 0.18).

The corresponding analysis with trust showed a weak positive but nonsignificant association in females only.

We only detected weak negative associations, although significant, between parental Confidence and Restriction and Pressure to eat.