"To explain the association" means to provide a clear and understandable explanation of how two or more things are connected or related to each other.
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It is important to note that this does not
explain associations of firm control with self - efficacy, as psychological control was unrelated to self - efficacy for diabetes in the present study.
However, an accompanying commentary questions whether medical cannabis is the cause of higher prescription drug use, or whether other
factors explain the association.
And, mitigating factors such as childhood socioeconomic status, adult depression or personality traits did
not explain the association between childhood abuse and greater risk of death in women, according to the study.
«Though we can't
yet explain the association between infertility and mortality, it is possible that the condition may be an early indicator of either endocrine or inflammatory disruption that over time, leads to long term health issues such as malignancy or diabetes.»
The study verified the central and early role of the immune pathway that drives allergy (Th2), which
helps explain the association of eczema, asthma, and allergies in kids.
«The main objective of this study was to test a conceptual model in which repetitive
thought explained the association between work - family conflict and health,» Davis said.
It could be the case that the people who had a very positive first experience were somehow different from those who had a very bad first experience (e.g., in terms of personality, attitudes, demographics), and perhaps this
difference explains the association.
Measurement error could
only explain the associations if there was a systematic bias, such that children who are destined to do well at school (and their parents) overestimated their viewing, whereas those who are destined to do poorly underestimated their viewing hours.
The current study fitted a cross-lagged model in a sample consisting of 4,075 twin pairs to explore (a) the role of genetic and environmental factors in the relationship between parental negativity and behavior problems from age 4 to age 12, (b) whether parent - driven and child - driven processes
independently explain the association, and (c) whether there are sex differences in this relationship.
This finding is consistent with views that firm control may not consistently promote well - being across contexts and age (Steinberg, Lamborn, Dornbusch, & Darling, 1992; Steinberg & Morris, 2001), and may
partially explain its association with higher depressive symptoms in older adolescents.
Authors attempt to
explain the association suggesting abuse can heighten vulnerability to psychiatric conditions; children who experience abuse may develop negative health behaviors (such as drug use) to cope with stress; obesity and its consequences could be one pathway between childhood abuse and death; and childhood adversities may affect how biological systems operate throughout life.
A number of studies of marital conflict have examined both parent - and child — reports of marital conflict and child outcomes, but additional research is needed to provide evidence for potential mechanisms of
action explaining the association between marital conflict and child internalizing and externalizing outcomes.
The researchers considered factors including physical activity, time spent watching television or involved in structured activities, maternal depression, unsupervised time and time spent with parents; none of those
factors explained the association.
Of interest to food synergy, further simultaneous adjustment for dietary fiber, vitamin E, folic acid, phytic acid, iron, zinc, magnesium, and manganese intake did
not explain the association of whole - grain consumption with total mortality, whether adjusting for other lifestyle characteristics or not.
Objectives To evaluate the relationship between serum hormone levels and high depressive symptoms and whether hormone levels or their change might
explain the association of menopausal status with depressive symptoms previously reported in a national sample of midlife women.
Shared genetic influences do not
explain the association between parent — offspring relationship quality and offspring internalizing problems: results from a Children - of - Twins study.
The researchers write that they can't tell from their study what may
explain the association between soda and behavior problems in children, but one possibility is that an ingredient in soda - like caffeine or high fructose corn syrup - could directly increase aggression.
Cow's milk does contain a growth hormone called IGF - 1, which has been tied to increased cancer risk, but scientists say that drinking milk increases IGF - 1 levels in the human body so minimally, if at all, that it's unlikely to
explain the association.
The upshot: «We could
explain the association between mental ability and survival with reaction time.»
The research group is working to pinpoint a mechanism that could
explain the association between Plasmodium infection and surviving an Ebola infection.
The mechanisms that
explain the association between maternal PCOS and ASD in the children were not explored in this epidemiological study.
For Florencio, central sensitization may
explain the association between the frequency of migraine attacks and the severity of TMD.
The study can't
explain the association, but Vetter said it could be related to increased inflammation in the body and social disruption.
«If confirmed by future analyses of the full 10 years of follow - up in this cohort, these findings will help to
explain associations between long - term PM2.5 concentrations and clinical cardiovascular events,» the authors wrote.
The study concluded that neither shared genetics nor family environment can
explain the associations between exposure to SSRIs and birth weight.
Soliman said the finding that atrial fibrillation was associated only with NSTEMI heart attacks suggests that factors contributing to partial blockage of the coronary arteries or increased oxygen demand, such as sudden increase in heart rate, are more likely to
explain the association between a-fib and heart attack than those factors linked to total blockage caused by the migration of a blood clot to a coronary artery from the site of its formation.
«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may
explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»
Several factors may
explain this association, including genetics and a host of environmental exposures, including smoking, alcohol consumption and shared immunoinflammatory pathways.
There are various theories to
explain these associations, and researchers now have a new player to consider: the bacteria that live in the digestive tract.