Sentence examples for confounding agent from inspiring English sources

No confounding agent was involved in the occurrence of ANA and anti-dsDNA.

No confounding agent (such as statins) was involved in patients with myositis, myalgias or elevated creatinin phosphokinase.

16 To control for confounding agents, we included in the model, drugs that could potentially accelerate or reduce bleeding or occlusive tendency.

Aimed at minimizing these confounding agents - frequently not taken into consideration in previous studies - we evaluated the effect of the 4G/5G polymorphism of the PAI-1 gene on the occurrence of organ dysfunction, severity of the disease and mortality in a relatively homogenous cohort of patients: only Caucasian subjects with severe sepsis due to pneumonia were included in the study.

A total of 400 serum canine samples, including 283 positive dogs for CVL from an endemic area, 86 clinically healthy dogs from a non-endemic area and 31 dogs seropositive for confounding infectious agents (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, Babesia canis and Ehrlichia canis) were used for test validation.

In order to avoid anti-TNF-α agent as a confounding factor, patients under or who had previously received anti-TNF-α agent were excluded from this study.

As noted above, however, even processes of tracking by means of simple heuristics can lead a tracker to make systematic misidentification errors and confound an apparent agent with a real agent.

After confounding from other antimicrobial agents was controlled for, fluoroquinolone use was significantly associated with an increased risk of developing CDAD (OR 12.7; 95% CI 2.6 to 61.6).

However, particularly in surgical patients, vasopressors may be required as a result of anesthetic agents, epidural anesthesia, blood loss, and so on, so that in the presence of infection it may be difficult to accurately distinguish the specific reason for vasopressor agents, thus confounding the diagnosis.

38 It should be noted that patients with grade 2 or higher peripheral neuropathy in association with docetaxel were excluded from TROPIC, confounding any comparisons with this agent.

Many of the other potential etiological agents also share common host characteristics with the environmental agent of interest further confounding the analysis.