Sentence examples for controlling for fish from inspiring English sources
After controlling for fish consumption and many other factors, the scientists found an association between several A.D.H.D.-related behaviors and levels of mercury above one microgram per gram in the maternal hair samples.
This association weakened after controlling for fish consumption.
The significance of some associations disappeared after controlling for fish and alcohol consumption.
Only the associations for HO-PCB-107 and ∑HO-PCBs remained significant after controlling for fish consumption.
A negative relationship between spleen size and gonad size, controlling for fish body size, was found in females but not in males.
Other studies have also identified persistent differences in MeHg exposure between demographic subgroups, even after controlling for fish consumption, for example, higher exposures among higher-income compared with lower-income women (Mahaffey et al. 2009) and among Asian (McKelvey et al. 2007) and Inuit (Canuel et al. 2006) fish consumers compared with other ethnic groups.
Several studies have found an association between increased mercury and increased blood pressure in adults, although only two met our low-dose exposure definition: Valera et al. (2009) adjusted for fish nutrients (DHA, eicosa-pentaenoic acid, and selenium), whereas Vupputuri et al. (2005) controlled for fish intake.
We will concede that controlling for maternal fish intake when assessing the impact of mercury on neurodevelopment is an important consideration that can be addressed in the future.
Controlling for standard fish length, sex, day of dissection, sampling year and observer, significant differences in infection parameters between sites were detected for the five major parasite categories (Table 3).
The association persisted even when controlled for maternal fish consumption [ 12].
We used the same dominant pair for the two fish of a matched set of sibling fish, thereby controlling for individual differences in the behaviour of the dominant pairs.
