The phrase "adjusting the association" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are modifying or changing a relationship or connection between entities, such as in data management or social contexts.
Example: "The team is focused on adjusting the association between user preferences and the recommended content to improve engagement."
Alternatives: "modifying the relationship" or "altering the connection".
Regression modelling is commonly used to account for confounding by adjusting the association of interest for the effect of other variables associated with the outcome and the exposure variable.
On the contrary, at an affordable cost, genotyping a few dozen EuroAIMs would allow adjusting the association tests for population stratification to control the excess of spurious results.
Adjusting the association between early infections and celiac disease for BCG vaccination status did not affect the association (data not shown).
Table 2 shows the effect of additionally adjusting the association of age at menarche with HSV-2 or HIV for socio-economic variables and sexual behaviour variables.
Additional analysis were performed adjusting the association of LMW apo(a) phenotypes on ABI in the KORA studies or PAD in CAVASIC for SDlog-Lp(a).
Adjusting the association between rs8022616 and CWP for HAD depression score and sleep quality score rendered it non-significant (p=0.275) but the odds of having CWP was still reduced, proportional change=0.69, 95% CI 0.35 to 1.35.
Further adjusting the associations of the genetic risk scores and survival for PSA level, grade, and stage made no substantial differences to the results (Supplementary Table 10).
Multivariable regression was used to adjust the association between ADLs and QOL for important covariates.
In each analysis, we estimated the crude relationship between familial longevity and GRS and then adjusted the association for sex.
The BMI (calculated as weight/height) was used to adjust the association between blood lipid and physical fitness parameters.
Multivariable linear regression was then used to simultaneously adjust the association of the different covariates with SAR and SMR.
