Sentence examples for masked the relation from inspiring English sources

Therefore, we did not include BASDAI as one of the independent variables in our analysis and relied more on objective surrogates of disease activity such as ESR because the inclusion of perceived disease activity might have masked the relation between the psychometric factors and the self-reported disease disability.

Second, since this is an observational study, confounding factors could explain the findings; however, this possibility is limited by the design of the data collection and the adjustments made for the many factors that could mask the relation between sleep problems and incident diabetes.

The studies that combined the underweight patients with the normal-weight patients [ 9, 14] may have masked the true relation between mortality and BMI category.

It is expected that the high-frequency variability of the ST signals would mask the LT relation and synchronization would not be visible anymore.

We omitted participants receiving anti-hypertensive drugs in the analysis of mercury and BP; inclusion of these participants could have masked a relation between the exposure and outcome.

Cynics who have watched the wealth creation at Goldman might think that the program is little more than a public relations effort to mask the gigantic bonuses it is expected to pay out starting in early December (to be paid next year).

To say "we are all Rwandans now," is a public relations attempt to mask the undercurrent of rage and despair that still permeates Rwandan society.

Our results further highlight the importance of stratification of patients in relation to disease severity, which otherwise mask the significance of associations in combined groups.

Newspapers mask the floors.

24 Since obesity and high levels of insulin have been associated with the risk of cancer or ischaemic vascular disease, 34 35 the observed results for PAI-1 might only mask a relation of cancer or ischaemic vascular disease with obesity or insulin.

On the other hand, we found that data transformation after preprocessing and normalization can mask mutual relations between the error measures including also the fraction of differentially expressed genes.