Sentence examples for confound reported from inspiring English sources

However, although antibiotic data might confound reported associations between procurement and infection, it would require a strong correlation between rises in procurement and decreases in selected antibiotics to abolish these strong independent associations.

There is a major difference between prevalence rate of consultations for asthma, in under-5 children (0.32 %, all regions confounded) reported in the current study in 2008 (it reached 0.53 % in 2012) and asthma prevalence rates (about 4.5%%) reported in AIRMAG study in the under-five children [ 4].

Criteria: Prospective/longitudinal study and analysis; adjustment for confounding; reporting of attrition; doctor-assessed need.

Finally, other, unmeasured risk factors for perinatal death could confound the reported associations.

Observational studies varied in their attempts to control for confounding; some reported unadjusted estimates whereas others controlled for confounding.

Even though models adjusted for potential confounding variables reported by children, caregiver related confounders such as mental health or substance use could not be accounted for.

It is also impossible to rule out residual confounding in reported RRs, and in particular we were unable to investigate potential confounding factors related to sleep or napping behaviours, such as chronotype and employment in shift work.

Although potential confounding from other occupational exposures is possible, the magnitude of bias due to this confounding was reported to be minimal in the AHS and not likely to be associated with pesticide exposures (Coble et al. 2002).

However, neither study used PSA levels as a criterion for biopsy thus confounding the reported predictive values with results from digital rectal examinations and transrectal ultrasonography.

How this advance confounds the reported epidemiology of this organism remains unclear and contributes to the lack of clarity around attributable illness.

The only confounding reports are Masci et al. (1999) and Tatham and Shewry (1995) where an ARQL-type sequence is reported from the D-genome and Ae. speltoides (B-genome ancestor), respectively.