Demonstrated that maternal attachment insecurity is a potent predictor of depressive symptoms in the early postpartum.
Other long-term studies have also pinpointed exercise as the single most potent predictor of healthy longevity, in women as well as in men.
In this era of nationalized congressional elections, people's feelings about the president have become an even more potent predictor of how they will vote.
Indeed, the analysis showed that a physician's past prescribing pattern, rather than patient characteristics, was the more potent predictor of what insomnia medication a patient might get.
Teacher-child interactions have been identified as the strongest indicator of quality and most potent predictor of child outcomes.
In Seattle, the second of the three districts, the amount of daylight was "a more potent predictor" of student performance than sex, class size or whether the student came from a single-parent household, the study found.
"A large belly, independent of total weight, is a potent predictor of dementia," said Rachel A. Whitmer, a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif., who led the new study.
This raises the intriguing possibility that withdrawal of participation once initiated could be its own potent predictor or signal of disease worsening, whether or not caused by the application.
There is increasing evidence that joint shape is a potent predictor of osteoarthritis (OA) risk; yet the cellular events underpinning joint morphogenesis remain unclear.
Other than age, left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is the most potent predictor of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in the hypertensive population, and is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease, sudden death, heart failure and stroke.
The score was a potent predictor of outcome (p = 0.0006).
