Its prognostic impact might be significant, because it may lead to a reduction in the cumulative fluid balance, which by itself is clearly associated with poor prognosis (Fig. 4).
In interpersonal relations, confirmation bias can be problematic because it may lead to forming inaccurate and biased impressions of others.
Like her mother, Nancy Reagan, Ms. Davis supports research on stem cells taken from human embryos because it may lead to a cure for neurological diseases like Alzheimer's, which afflicted Mr. Reagan.
Confirmation bias is important because it may lead people to hold strongly to false beliefs or to give more weight to information that supports their beliefs than is warranted by the evidence.
But China's unyielding support of Kim Jong-un has a serious downside, they added, because it may lead to a result nearly as unpalatable: efforts by the United States and its regional allies Japan and South Korea to contain China.
Mr Klein said Mr Miller should be wary of competing-against-China-and-India rhetoric because it may lead the American public to feel hostile to the prosperity of those countries, when in fact such prosperity benefits everyone.
I especially like the idea of American kids helping support education abroad, partly because it's hard to find a kind of foreign aid that gets more bang for the buck than education (especially education of girls) and partly because it may lead Americans to take education a bit less for granted when they see foreigners struggling to go to school.
Consider the mother who helps persuade her son to become a lawyer, the father who urges his daughter to train to be a doctor or the student who picks a college major nearly at random because it's time to declare one, or because it may lead to a job with a high salary.
The influence of time dependent deformation is particularly import because it may lead to serviceability failures in structural members where deflections or crack widths are excessive.
PET/CT is not usually performed in the initial evaluation of these patients, mostly because it may lead both to false-positive and false-negative results.
