Confounding factors
Comorbidity and confounding factors in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sleep disorders in children
... potential confounding factors of previous research regarding the relationships between sleep problems and ADHD in children, and outlines some treatment considerations in the management of sleep disturbances ...
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Influence of Confounding Factors on Radiation Dose Estimation Using In Vivo Validated Transcriptional Biomarkers.
... transcription factors responsible of inducing mRNA expression (Christmann and Kaina ...transcription factors regulated by the DDR are p53, NF-kappaB, breast cancer-associated protein 1 and Ap-1 (Christmann ...
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Gender Aspects of Confounding Factors in the Preparation of Powerlifters
... defensive factors as the basis of athletes’ psychological ...the confounding factors in sport and strategies to overcome them is ...to confounding factors in powerlifting, therefore ...
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Confounding Factors Affecting the Marginal Quality of an Intra-Oral Scan
... Not all possible confounding factors were investigated. In vivo hindrances such as moisture, muscular soft tissues, and/or limited jaw opening are likely to further decrease the efficacy of the scan. ...
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Possible Confounding Factors in an Oral Probiotics Trial: Breast Milk: In Reply
... American Academy of Pediatrics, Subcommittee on Management of Acute Otitis Media1. Diagnosis and management of acute otitis media.[r] ...
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Influence of leptin on arterial distensibility - A novel link between obesity and cardiovascular disease?
... potential confounding factors (Table ...for confounding factors together with 3 different measures of fat mass: using EZ COMP analyzer (regression coefficient, ⫺ ...
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Potential sources of interference on Abeta immunoassays in biological samples
... Analyte-specifi c interferences induced by a specifi c therapeutic (with a defi ned molecular nature) can be identifi ed easily and reproducibly by spiking of the drug in relevant concentrations in the sample of interest, ...
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Physical activity and nutrition behaviour outcomes of a cluster randomized controlled trial for adults with metabolic syndrome in Vietnam
... Methods: Ten communes, involving participants aged 50 – 65 years with metabolic syndrome, were recruited from Hanam province in northern Vietnam. The communes were randomly allocated to either the intervention (five ...
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Incidence of Mucocutaneous Reactions in Children Treated With Niflumic Acid, Other Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs, or Nonopioid Analgesics
... The results of this retrospective cohort study in children showed very clear patterns of NSAID and nonopioid analgesic drug use; niflumic acid and acetaminophen were the most frequently prescribed drugs, predominantly ...
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Calcium Use During In-hospital Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Report From the National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
... calcium might be indicated. First, in the settings of met- abolic/electrolyte abnormalities and toxicologic abnor- malities, calcium use during CPR was not associated with worse event survival (aOR: 0.6; 95% CI: 0.3–1.3) ...
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Relative importance of climatic, geographic and socio economic determinants of malaria in Malawi
... Although the GLM accounted for extra variation by the inclusion of climate and non-climate variables and fac- tors, such as the annual cycle and ecological zones, there was still a large proportion of the variance that ...
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Impact of virtual reality simulation on learning barriers of phacoemulsification perceived by residents
... these two potential confounding factors, Eyesi simulation training was significantly associated with increased con- fidence in higher difficulty surgical tasks. Virtual real[r] ...
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Modelling the impact of women's education on fertility in Malawi
... unobservable confounding factors such as abilities, motivations, and pref- erences contribute to the formation of an inverted U-shaped relationship between education and fertility for women who are more ...
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Treatment policy change to dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine contributes to the reduction of adverse maternal and pregnancy outcomes
... In order to control for confounding factors in measuring impact of malaria treatment policy change to maternal and pregnancy outcomes, this study examined the seasonal variation in Mimik[r] ...
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Misophonia in Singaporean psychiatric patients: a cross-sectional study
... identify factors associated with severity of misophonic symptoms in Singaporean psychiatric ...for confounding factors, multivariate regression analysis showed that anxiety ( β = ...
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Management of late-preterm and term infants with hyperbilirubinaemia in resource-constrained settings
... several confounding factors such as widespread exclusive breastfeeding, infections, blood group incompatibilities and G6PD deficiency, which place infants at high risk of severe hyperbilirubinaemia and ...
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The vertical hip fracture – a treatment challenge A cohort study with an up to 9 year follow up of 137 consecutive hips treated with sliding hip screw and antirotation screw
... After multivariable Logistic regression analysis adjusting for possible confounding factors there was an increased risk for reoperation for displaced fractures 22% compared to undisplace[r] ...
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Review Article Does phacoemulsification speed the progression of diabetic retinopathy? A meta-analysis
... In order to control these potential confounding factors in studying the influence of phacoemul- sification on postoperative DR progression in two groups of diabetes patients, well-design[r] ...
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Association between pesticide exposure and risk of kidney cancer: a meta-analysis
... with confounding factors that could be internal in the recruited ...known confounding factors could bring about a bias in a direction either toward exaggeration or underestimation of the risk ...
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Asthma and atopy in children born by caesarean section: effect modification by family history of allergies – a population based cross-sectional study
... Despite the cross sectional design of the study, the tem- poral sequence of the exposure and outcomes in this study is clear. In addition the self – reporting nature of the mode of delivery is unlikely to have lead to ...
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