Sentence examples for confounding subjects from inspiring English sources

60 This was not incorporated here as the difference was small, and it was not clear whether it might be due to residual confounding (subjects were matched for age, sex, and smoking status only).

Gina Hyams is an author and editor who specializes in mysterious and confounding subjects, such as pie, nannies, extraterrestrial encounters, the history of incense, folk art, facials, pink palapas, death, and room service.

Of all the N.F.L.'s recent border wars -- the tiff between Warren Sapp and Keyshawn Johnson of Tampa Bay, the since-cooled beef between Michael Strahan and Tiki Barber of the Giants -- the Mariucci-Owens drama has been a uniquely confounding subject.

These associations are unlikely to have been confounded, subject to the caveat that we did not examine other components of ambient air pollution or meteorologic covariates besides temperature.

Future studies that reduce confounding between subjects, data acquisition and analysis are warranted.

The observations provide strong suggestive evidence that quantitative MRI can provide practical, anatomically specific outcome measures with less potentially confounding inter-subject variation than current non-imaging measurements.

Similarly, the use of antibiotics for IGE treatment may have increased exposed subjects' risk of FGDs; which, as previously described, may be confounded by subjects with more severe clinical illness [ 40].

Many studies have reported decreasing melatonin levels with increasing age, but melatonin levels in these studies may have been confounded by subjects being exposed to ambient light during melatonin collection, or smoking, drinking alcohol and/or using medication in close proximity to melatonin collection (e.g. [15], [16], [17], [32], [40], [41], [42]).

This may be further confounded by subjects' prior exposure to different EHRs before using the EHR at our institution.

The cognitive reserve is particularly confounding for these subjects because it prevents cognitive testing from being able to efficiently detect their underlying disease at an early stage.

To avoid confounding the analysis, subjects were excluded if they restarted their oral antihypertensive therapy within 4 to 8 h after the end of infusion.