Sentence examples for as negative confounders from inspiring English sources

The traffic-related pollutants in this case would act, at least in theory, as negative confounders.

However, our assessment (Garshick et al. 2012) identified years of employment as a negative confounder because it was positively associated with cumulative exposure and negatively associated with lung cancer risk.

Species (cattle vs. buffalo) was acting as a negative confounder for the association between Brucella spp. and keeping sheep or goats in the household; buffaloes appear to be less likely to be seropositive than cows, however, households which had buffaloes tended to be larger and hence were more likely to have sheep and goats.

Finally, the degree of schools' autonomy towards educational resources and the implementation of curricula and the frequency of assessments were school-related confounders, the former with a positive effect whilst the latter represents a negative confounder.

The high molecular weight of fibrinogen as compared to the lower molecular weight marker gadolinium used for imaging studies may be an additional negative confounder.

Other similar confounders such as negative life events and low levels of social support might also explain an increased risk of violent offending among people with common mental disorders [ 31].

Children with indeterminate IL-2 test results would therefore be classified as negative by default, which is a confounder when comparing results to the other tests.

Another common confounder in functional network analysis is the choice of functional connectivity threshold in rsfMRI, as negative correlations are incompletely understood physiologically.

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This was reported as negative.

was used as negative control.