Sentence examples for weight per se from inspiring English sources

Some scientists, including Jeffrey Gordon's colleagues at Washington University, are trying to see whether the ailments of obesity (especially diabetes and high blood pressure) might be caused not by the added weight per se, but by the associated inflammation.

Weight, per se, is not a choice.

It is not known if small fetus/placenta weight per se causes stillbirth in humans, but intrauterine growth restriction/placental insufficiency was diagnosed in 23% of human stillbirth cases in a recent study [89].

Other studies on birth weight and CHD found that the association was strengthened by adjustment for gestational age indicating that the intrauterine growth pattern has a stronger association to CHD than the birth weight per se [4], [40].

Gestational age could be regarded as a determinant of birth weight, and adjusting for gestational age strengthened the birth weight-LTPA association indicating that the intrauterine growth pattern, i.e. birth weight for gestational age, may be a stronger determinant for LTPA than the birth weight per se.

Low birth weight per se is not likely to be the causal factor leading to asthma.

Weighting per se is not controversial: all pollsters adjust their totals so that their samples reflect the distributions of age and gender known to exist in the population.

Thus, it was this lack of power and not the variation in control prostate weights per se, that has prevented Ashby et al. from resolving conclusively the finasteride low-dose phenomenon.

However, in multivariable model predicting lnOLA, which accounted for the effects of parity, higher calf birth weights per se were associated with an earlier OLA in the current study.

By focusing on the promotion of healthy weight rather than weight loss per se, a favourable response was observed in the OW group.

This rapid response could result from low fuel supply (calories), lower carbohydrate content of the weight-loss diet, and/or weight loss per se.