Studies that systematically use screening and confirmatory diagnostic evaluations will greatly attenuate concerns about misclassification of PTSD and migraine diagnoses in epidemiological studies [20, 21].
These observations serve to attenuate concerns.
This attenuates concerns expressed about the robustness of predictive models in epidemiology [ 16].
The high participation rates for cases and controls (90% and 86%) also served to attenuate concerns about selection bias.
The concordance of our study findings with other studies [ 45- 48] that used screening and diagnostic instruments serve to attenuate concerns about misclassification of depression status.
However, events that amplify or attenuate public concern are not easily predicted [6], and numerous examples exist where the amplification of the perceived risk was not ultimately accompanied by a commensurate risk increase such as; the Chernobyl Disaster [29], [31], cancer risk from cell phones [32], and anthrax outbreaks [28].
However, we chose the link function and distribution based on statistical tests and these results might attenuate the concern over inconsistent estimates.
To attenuate our concerns, we first estimate a specification that excludes the LA share and then a specification that excludes the LE share.
Nevertheless, frank responses to specific items of the scale (such as the non-punitive culture) may attenuate such concerns.
The fact that our findings are similar to those that used more invasive, though objective measures of sleep traits (e.g., polysomnography) [ 48] serve to attenuate some concerns.
The concordance of our results with those from other studies that have included racially, ethnically and geographically diverse populations [ 23- 25, 27, 28], however, serve to attenuate these concerns.
