A recent cross-sectional study of PD patients suggests that many of the patients with hypoalbuminemia are volume overloaded and hypervolemia may be an additional confounding influence [ 36].
Further analysis indicated that the enrichment for differentially expressed genes in these processes was not the product of a confounding influence by other tumor markers.
Further analysis of the effect of education on the knowledge scores stratified by religion did not show any significant association (Mantel-Haenszel summary Chi Square = 0.82; p = 0.364) indicating that religion was a confounding variable for the influence of education.
Given that constitutional genotypes may well influence patient prognosis it is highly desirable that survivorship is not confounding influence on sample collection.
A limitation to this study is the potential confounding influence of aspirin prescribed to KD patients with coronary aneurysms on the levels of oxidative stress markers.
The most pressing factor was the possible confounding influence of differences in stimulus discriminability at a unisensory level.
In particular, few studies address maternal physical energy levels when examining postpartum mental health, despite it's confounding influence, and to our knowledge, none have taken intrinsic traits, like optimism, into consideration.
Instead, the association of CNP147 with raised plasma CFH may be the major protective influence, whereas the low CFHR1 concentration in AMD cases appears to be due to confounding influences, such as the effect of disease per se.
In blood serum chemistry (Fig. 6), apart from magnesium, thyroxine (T4) and iron as described above, we found some more interesting features, which had, however, at most isolated prognostic value, possibly because there is a strong influence of confounding factors, some of them related to intake and excretion.
