Sentence examples for be attributable to confounding from inspiring English sources
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.
A further consideration is whether our findings are likely to be attributable to confounding.
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that associations previously noted between PCB levels and birth weight may be attributable to confounding by maternal weight gain during pregnancy.
Nevertheless, if other determinants of breast cancer (Sharpe and Boivin, 2000) were associated with TCA use, it is possible that our results might be attributable to confounding by such determinants.
In this study, we assessed how much of the epidemiologic association between prenatal PFOS and PFOA (PFAS thereafter) exposure and birth weight could be attributable to confounding by GFR.
We anticipated that these disparities might be attributable to confounding by biophysical factors that strongly influence tree growth, but found that racial disparities remained after adjustment for these factors.
The extent to which the association between prenatal exposure to PCBs and birth weight is attributable to confounding by gestational weight gain has not been adequately considered.
However, our results were robust to adjustments for a large range of sociodemographic, health behavior, and health status factors, making it less probable that they were attributable to confounding or obtained by chance.
Because rib occurred in 92% of capsular serotype III isolates and was found infrequently in other serotypes, and type III occurred more frequently among infants with invasive disease, it is likely that the association with CSF is attributable to confounding.
