Maria Diaconu Dec 1, 2008:

Da, despre asta este vorba! O cercetare impresionantă, felicitările mele, Antonia!

Antonia Toth (asker) Dec 1, 2008:

Am preluat de la Maria:
control
a. To verify or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.
aici se potriveşte cuv. "regulate", în sensul de adaptare, ajustare

Antonia Toth (asker) Dec 1, 2008:

Este un termen statistic, aşa cum se explică f. bine mai jos. Adică se elimină alte covariabile (factori) care au influenţă asupra bolii, dar care nu fac obiectul studiului. An adjusted rate is an overall summary measure that helps control for age differences between populations. When comparing across geographic areas, some method of age-adjusting is typically used to control for area-to-area differences in health events that can be explained by different age distributions in the area populations. For example, an area that has an older population will have higher crude death rates for cancer, even though its exposure levels and cancer rates within specific age groups may the same as those in other areas. One might incorrectly attribute the high cancer rates to some characteristic of the area other than age. Age-adjusted rates control for age effects, allowing better comparability of rates across areas. http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/wish/main/BRFS/ageAdjustment.htm Reducerea concentratiei de colesterol s-a asociat semnificativ cu riscul de dementa/BA, chiar si dupa ajustarea pentru varsta, perioada de urmarire, sex, educatie, colesterol ... http://psihiatru.pulsmedia.ro/article--Referate-Noua_controv... După ajustarea după vârstă, sex, factori de risc cardiovascular şi alte variabile relevante, nivelul crescut al progenitorilor endoteliali s-a asociat cu un risc redus de deces http://www.stetoscop.ro/arhiva/2005/43/ultimaora.php

Antonia Toth (asker) Nov 29, 2008:

Nu e chiar contextul meu, dar exista sute de astfel de contexte legate de studiile clinice, aici poate este unul mai clar:

After controlling for age, sex, history of arthritis, systolic blood pressure, body mass index, smoking, and education, those with a baseline active lifestyle (walking three times or more a week) were 70% less likely to develop exudative age-related macular degeneration over 15 years (odds ratio 0.3, 95% confidence interval 0.1 to 0.7), compared with sedentary people.