Confounding Factors: Mind it to Avoid

Varikasuvu Seshadri Reddy; Pullaiah Pasupuleti; Himanshu Madaan; Poonam Agrawal; Renu Garg

doi:10.58739/jcbs/v03i3.2

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Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences

DOI: 10.58739/jcbs/v03i3.2

Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 150-151

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Confounding Factors: Mind it to Avoid

Varikasuvu Seshadri Reddy^1* , Pullaiah Pasupuleti², Himanshu Madaan¹, Poonam Agrawal¹, Renu Garg¹

¹.Department of Biochemistry, BPS Govt. Medical College, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat, Haryana, India
². Department of Biochemistry, Sri Muthukumaran Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Abstract

The medical subject heading (MeSH) definition (1) of the confounding factors read as “Factors that can cause or prevent the outcome of interest, are not intermediate variables, and are not associated with the factor (s) under investigation. They give rise to situations in which the effects of two processes are not separated, or the contribution of causal factors cannot be separated, or the measure of the effect of exposure or risk is distorted because of its association with other factors influencing the outcome of the study”.