The phrase "attributable to confounding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to research, statistics, or analysis when discussing factors that may obscure or distort the relationship between variables.
Example: "The observed increase in health outcomes may be attributable to confounding factors such as socioeconomic status and lifestyle choices."
Alternatives: "due to confounding" or "resulting from confounding".
The higher mortality rates found in this population, in comparison to non-cancer critically ill patients, may be attributable to confounding bias due to a higher incidence of multiple organic dysfunction in those patiens with malignant neoplasms; however data regarding this hypothesis are scarce.
However, data on intestinal FA distribution remained scarce and have been mostly reported in CF mice model with diverging conclusions attributable to confounding variables such as age, types of mice models and diets [4], [37], [38].
ARHI is a complex, multifactorial trait that is attributable to confounding intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
(1998) gets worse as increases, because it only addresses the bias attributable to confounding.
A further consideration is whether our findings are likely to be attributable to confounding.
Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) is a complex, multifactorial disorder that is attributable to confounding intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
The findings could also be attributable to uncontrolled confounding, although we adjusted for proxy measures of several potentially important confounders, including socioeconomic and early-life factors, and blood lead levels and maternal smoking during pregnancy.
The possibility that the associations were attributable to unmeasured confounding cannot be excluded.
The steep decline in risk associated with caffeine intakes of <30 mg/day may be attributable to unmeasured confounding.
Any VE obtained during this control period would be attributable to unmeasured confounding, whereas successful adjustment would have removed the effect.
Because associations between exposures and outcomes are potentially attributable to unmeasured confounding and reverse causation, using a genetic determinant of the exposure as an instrumental variable (IV) allows the causal component of the observed association to be estimated.
