The phrase "affected this comparison" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain factors or variables have influenced or changed a particular comparison being made.
Example: "The recent data on climate change has significantly affected this comparison between the two regions' temperature trends."
Alternatives: "influenced this comparison" or "altered this comparison".
Apparently, the natural difference in fat percentage between genders strongly affects this comparison.
We took the different number of 'days in field' for each plant into account in our comparison of growth and reproduction among genotypes and therefore the staggered planting did not affect this comparison.
Although phylotype 4 strains BDBR29 and R24 have undergone gene reduction potentially affecting this comparison, we still believe that this difference reflects the highest genetic diversity within phylotype 4 [ 9] and could also be associated with the diverse lifestyle among phylotype 4 strains [ 11].
This would probably not have affected the comparison between the I and P groups, since the female to male distribution was equal and age differences were small.
As the pipelines from the JGI and the Broad Institute are not identical, this may cause small differences in the numbers per family that affected the comparison.
Therefore, we do not expect these factors to have strongly affected the comparison of the management policies.
Yet, we cannot entirely exclude the possibility that minor differences in overall cognition affected the comparison between AD and PD.
We did not find any discrepancy in the classification of facilities between the two sources that might affected the comparison.
This affects the comparison of stress levels between cats under different housing conditions due to potential confounds of comparing cats which are acutely stressed (e.g. from being taken from stable enriched group housing to barren single housing) to cats which are chronically stressed, or to those that have actually begun to habituate to their environment.
We did not expect this would have affected the comparisons since patients did not know whether any health education program may be helpful in BP control.
