Sentences with phrase «possible confounders»
"Possible confounders" refers to factors that may influence the relationship between two variables in a study, creating a misleading or false association. These factors need to be considered and accounted for to ensure accurate results and conclusions. Full definition
Then, to control for possible confounders in the relationship between depressive score and physical aggressive behaviors, a multiple linear regression was performed.
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Individual - level exposures to traffic - related air pollutants at their birth address were estimated by analysing emission from road traffic in the neighbourhood, population density and land use in the area, and the association between air pollution and insulin resistance was calculated using a model adjusted for several possible confounders including socioeconomic status of the family, birthweight, pubertal status and BMI.
The second mentions many possible confounders, but does not appear to have controlled for them.
The association between father's vitamin D intake reported during the first pre-natal trimester and the height and weight of children at age 5 and 9 was calculated using a model adjusted for several possible confounders including: paternal age, energy intake height, weight, and being the biological father; maternal age, vitamin D and energy intake height, and weight; and child's sex, age, vitamin D and energy intake, and summer outdoor physical activity aged five.
Researchers performed a meta - analysis of literature examining patients with NASH, and then tested their hypothesis using an animal model, which enabled them to eliminate possible confounders of the clinical data, such as antibiotic exposure and medical comorbidities.
Important possible confounders include: child's gender (higher autism risk in boys), perinatal complications (associated with a higher autism risk); maternal prepregnancy obesity and maternal diabetes (factors previously associated with increased autism risk in the same study cohort (Li, Fallin, et al., Pediatrics, 2016); maternal age (high maternal age associated with increased autism risk in child).
A fourth possible confounder was the effect of selection of survivors in a cohort population that has been followed for several years.
Possible Confounders With Whole - Grain Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
You may have heard scare stories about red meat and how we should restrict it, but this is based on epidemiology with so many possible confounders.
Data on additional risk factors or possible confounders, such as maternal age, parity, gestational age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, were collected from records accumulated during the pregnancy outcome study.
These possible confounders were included in a logistic regression analysis (table 6).
«This is an observational study, where it is very hard to control for all the possible confounders.