Sentence examples for mediate or confound from inspiring English sources

Stressful life events did not mediate or confound the association between MDD-PRS and depressive symptoms, however; MDD-PRS and stressful life events were independent, significant predictors of depressive symptoms and MDD-PRS explained less than 1% of the variance in depressive symptoms.

Impaired kidney function may mediate or confound this relationship.

Specifically, it is unclear whether personality-related characteristics mediate or confound the association between interpersonal discrimination and psychological distress.

Alternatively, mental ill health and substance abuse may mediate or confound the impact of these demographic risks.

PCBs also appear to act on a number of endogenous hormones, which in turn could mediate or confound relationships with diabetes.

Covariates from adulthood (53 years), which could mediate or confound the main associations of SEP with physical performance, were body size, physical activity, lung function, cognitive performance and disabling medical conditions.

Only eight population-based studies of common mental disorders examined possible mediating or confounding factors.

We also assessed the extent to which these associations were mediated or confounded by general and abdominal adiposity.

Much of the higher prevalence of diabetes associated with past child-bearing seems to be mediated (or confounded) by the heavier BMI associated with grand multiparity.

Other potential mediating or confounding factors include body weight, body mass index, waist-hip ratio, body composition, physical activity and autonomic nervous system function.

However, the effect of gender composition could also be at least partially explained by mediating or confounding factors not included in these models.