Sentence examples for attenuate a potential from inspiring English sources

We exclude workers aged 58 and more from our sample to attenuate a potential selection bias.

This weak association between interval cancers and high breast density could also have attenuated a potential adverse effect of density on survival in women with non-symptomatic cancers.

Therefore, there is a risk of misclassification of PTH levels that may have attenuated a potential possibly obscure true association between pre-diagnostic levels of PTH and mortality from breast cancer.

It is possible that some of the H. pylori positive subjects have been eradicated after baseline investigation which may have attenuated a potential association between H. pylori infection and pancreatic cancer to some extent.

Several proteins containing a P60 domain have been implicated in virulence, including two P60 domain proteins in Mycobacterium marinum involved in invasion and intracellular survival within macrophages [28], and a L. monocytogenes mutant in P60 is severely attenuated, suggesting a potential role in virulence [29].

Having such relevant instruments is very important to attenuate any potential bias arising from potential instrument non-validity.

The rotation of the radar antenna would reduce the time that bats were exposed to pulse-modulated microwave radiation and would therefore attenuate any potential deterrent effect.

The ethnic distribution of patients is more representative in the content validity testing sample, which may attenuate any potential bias.

While this effect varies depending on the time of treatment and melatonin pre-treatment could to some extent attenuate it, a potential link between the circadian effects of cocaine and neurodevelopment remains to be fully elucidated.

Circulating 25(OH D and 1,25(OH)2D concentrations were measured at one laboratory, in as few batches and in as short a time frame as possible (thus attenuating any potential technical errors of measurement).

As part of the standardized anaesthetic protocol, maintenance was with sevoflurane which has been shown to protect the endothelium from ischaemia-reperfusion injury [40] and might have further attenuated any potential pulmonary endothelial injury.