Sentence examples for ascertained and controlled from inspiring English sources

However, major indicators of health behaviour or confounders that are associated with risk of CRC were ascertained and controlled for in the multivariate analysis, such as former health check-up visits or former endoscopy of the large intestine.

CDC routinely analyzes data generated by state public health agencies in the course of ascertaining and controlling reportable diseases to identify new risk factors and trends that may well be generalizable; not surprisingly, CDC and state health departments often have arrived at different determinations as to whether a given EIP activity constituted research.

Healthy controls were ascertained and recruited by the Zucker Hillside Hospital Normal Control Program.

Of the 254 incident KD cases ascertained, no controls could be found for one case.

Of the 808 incident HD cases ascertained, no controls could be found for 12 of the cases.

Mammograms were only ascertained on controls for this analysis, as the focus of the study was to understand the genetics of mammographic density among healthy women.

However, this is not valid since they are ascertained differently, the controls being a sample from the whole population and the cases from the diseased subset.

However the data used are of high quality as ascertained by the controls performed at the International Agency for Research on Cancer [ 1], with high levels of microscopic verification (95%) and very low level of DCO cases (0.6%).

Using population-based ascertained cases (n=4011) and controls (2997) from the Breast Cancer Family Registry, we examined reproductive risk factors in relation to ER and PR status.

CV risk factors were ascertained among RA patients and controls at presentation.

The residential addresses of cases and controls ascertained at the time of diagnosis (i.e., 1996) were linked to the exposure surface.