The phrase "adjustments may reduce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the potential effects of changes or modifications on a particular outcome or situation.
Example: "After reviewing the data, we found that adjustments may reduce the overall costs of the project."
Alternatives: "modifications might lessen" or "changes could decrease".
The adjustment may reduce confounding, but does also introduce a substitution aspect in the interpretation of the results.
Although adjustment for mortality outcomes did not explain heterogeneity, inclusion of different confounding variables for adjustment by study may reduce the validity of the finding.
Adjustment for DOC may reduce this bias, but when CO levels are below the LOD, it is not clear how adjustments can be made.
Even these adjustments may not reduce tars in the gas to the required level, necessitating further downstream cleanup.
Early NGAL-guided adjustments to fluid management may reduce organ edema after cardiac surgery.
Technical developments will probably increase the sensitivity, while minor adjustments in bowel preparation may reduce the number of false positives, especially when using low-dose protocols.
Thus, adjustment for study site may reduce our ability to detect an association between particles and blood pressure.
Adjustment for the NOSIK score may reduce this effect slightly.
Finally, model 4 added adjustment for metropolitan area, which may reduce bias from potential confounding but may also reduce power by controlling for between-area differences in exposure variability.
While it is possible that adjustment for year of birth may reduce the strength of the association between black smoke and birth weight, it is also possible that residual confounding by year of birth or by other factors affecting birth weight and related to year of birth, for example increase in maternal overweight and improvement in quality of pre-natal care over the study period, may remain.
