Sentences with phrase «weaker associations between»

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.

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

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.

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».

A slight indication of a weaker association between academic test scores and general health for the BCS compared with the NCDS cohort at the level of consistently low scores was observed (p = 0.01 and p = 0.02 for interaction in the individual and full models respectively).

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

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-.

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.

Weak associations between pubertal development and psychiatric and behavioral problems.

Not exact matches

A weak and marginally significant inverse association was seen between milk intake and total CVD, but no significant association was seen with risk of stroke or CHD.

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

In addition to the connection with weak grip strength, Wu said there was a «very clear» inverse association between high blood pressure and mortality among those who weren't physically able to finish the gait - speed test in the latest study, measured over a 98.5 - inch walk.

The association with HDL - C was weaker and inconsistent between men and women.

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

Although weak or underdeveloped immune systems partly explain younger children's vulnerability, the association between resistant infections and older ages is more difficult to explain, Meropol said.

Researchers now believe they have found a link between «Yo - Yo Diets» and immune system dysfunction, & that they contribute to a weaker Immune System, according to study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

After adjustment for potential confounders, there was weak evidence for positive associations between maternal free sugar intake in pregnancy and childhood doctor - diagnosed asthma and childhood wheeze (OR comparing highest versus lowest quintile 1.31, 95 % CI 0.98 — 1.75; per quintile p - trend = 0.09 and 1.42, 95 % CI 1.05 — 1.92; per quintile p - trend = 0.08, respectively), and stronger evidence for a positive association with atopy at age 7 years (OR 1.38, 95 % CI 1.06 — 1.78; per quintile p - trend = 0.006)(table 2).

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).

One paper reported weak positive associations between maternal caffeine consumption and spina bifida (neural tube defects), but without a dose - effect relationship and with a negative association for tea.

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

Preliminary results from the Nurses Health Study suggested a weak inverse association between caffeine intake and the risk of breast cancer [44].

Where we did find weak relationships in the data, such as between the current year's temperature and the proportion of males born from 1961 to 2009, the association was negative.

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).

'' [O] nly a minority of children in single - parent families are maladjusted; the majority evince no psychopathology or behavioral symptoms, whether or not they experience psychic pain... Although many social scientists have emphasized the effects of father absence on child adjustment, Amato's research clearly indicates that the bivariate association between the two variables is much weaker than one might expect.

The associations between different combinations of adolescent and parental symptom load and unemployment benefits in the offspring were weaker than for medical benefits, and were removed to a large extent after introducing family factors in Model 3 (results for unemployment are displayed in online supplementary table S4 in the appendix).

In most cases examined, the negative association between insecure attachment and satisfaction was weakest in «younger» relationships (e.g., 6 months) and strongest in «older» relationships (e.g., 8 years).

Associations with age - relative self - rated health and sickness absence due to overstrain / fatigue were weaker, but still significant, and in the expected direction for several of the subgroups studied, suggesting an association between lack of AML and negative health consequences.

Although recent research has demonstrated that the allele × environment strategy is promising for detecting individual vulnerability to environmental risk, reported associations between gene variants and complex behaviors are in general weak.

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

A relationship exists for boys between externalizing behaviors and outcomes such as alcohol and drug use, but the association is weaker for girls.

There was weak evidence of an association between partner alcohol use and baseline adolescent depressive symptoms after adjusting for confounding variables (b = -.065, 95 % CI = -.13, -.00, p =.05).

Of the five studies that report associations between CSA and a subscale of the PSI, three were rated as moderate in quality and two were rated as weak.

The other two studies, both rated as weak in quality, found a significant association between depression and parental stress, though the association between CSA and depression was not significant (Harmer et al. 1999; Lang et al. 2010).

Both Ethier et al. (1995) and Wright et al. (2005) were rated as weak on the quality assessment tool, though both reported associations between CSA and scores on the parenting domain of the PSI.

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