Sentences with phrase «weak association»

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 researchers also found weaker associations with three other genes involved in the HDL pathway: ABCA1, CETP, and LPL.

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).

«There are very weak associations of content alignment with student achievement gains and no associations with the composite measure of effective teaching... the tests used for calculating VAM are not particularly able to detect differences in the content or quality of classroom instruction.

Accordingly, relatively weak associations between relationship satisfaction and divorce were found in a study following married parents over 10 years, from child age 4 to 14 (Hirschberger et al. [2009]-RRB-.

Based on the above, we expected that girls compared to boys would show weaker associations between disruptive behavior problems in early childhood and CD symptoms in adolescence, and stronger associations between CD symptoms and internalizing problems in adolescence and between CD symptoms and APP in young adulthood.

We believe this demonstrates that the methodological issue of the prevalence of maltreatment in the comparison group, while not easily solved, is a key contributor to the apparently weaker associations between child maltreatment and mental disorders observed in prospective studies relative to those observed in retrospective studies.

Allott said that high saturated fat content in the diet contributes to raised blood cholesterol levels, and the researchers also found in the study that men taking statins, which are drugs used to control cholesterol levels, had weaker associations between saturated fat intake and prostate cancer aggressiveness.

«We found childbirth has a very weak association with these markers, but they strongly correlate with sex,» she said.

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.

The few studies using prospective ascertainment of child maltreatment show weaker associations, raising the possibility that it is not maltreatment, but rather the memory of maltreatment, that raises the risk of later mental disorders.

These factors might have contributed to the weak association found between breast - feeding and atopic dermatitis in the entire study population (Table 2).

An intermediate model shows less clumping (middle), and a refined charge - scale model correctly predicts a weak association with carboxylic groups in water (not shown)(right).

A weaker association was found for five other PCB compounds and asthma.

Several explanations could account for the weak association between economic growth and reductions in child undernutrition, the researchers write.

These weaker associations did not meet the strict criteria necessary in this type of study to achieve statistical significance.

The authors acknowledge several reasons why low blood pressure or HbA1c levels have a weak association with medication deintensification.

First, while the primary renal tumor and distant sites can have biologic similarities, [34] we observed only a weak association in PD - L1 expression between the primary tumor and distant metastases (R = 0.24).

A weak association was found between PD - L1 expression in matched primary and metastatic specimens (R = 0.24).

Use of video games and subsequent behavioural issues is the subject of paper published in the journal PLOS One, and the authors report a weak association between «shoot - em - up» games and conduct disorder and no association between those games and depression.

Here are some of the foods with strong, moderate, or weak associations with heart disease, according to the new study:

Two studies, each with over 100 married couples found, consistent with previous research, a weak association between sexual frequency and explicit measures of satisfaction.

Applied to parenthood as context, it seems plausible that restrictions of freedom in the early parenting years may imply a smaller access to social arenas, involving a weaker association between extraversion and relationship dissolution in the early compared to the late child - rearing years.

In addition, no association was found between child temperament and behavioral responses and a weak association emerged between child temperament and emotional responses.

Although there was a suggestion of some weak associations using the unadjusted models, these associations were attenuated when models were adjusted for a number of confounding variables.

The neurotrophin BDNF had, in comparison, weaker associations, especially in the models that analyzed all the variables together.

Weak associations between pubertal development and psychiatric and behavioral problems.

You are correct — However, Melanie was smart — She saw a weak Association that had no guts to fight, so, she went after them.