The absence of adjustment for confounding factors (such as age, sex, smoking and dietary habit ) can hamper the statistical estimation causing over- or underestimation of the real association between salt or salted food and stomach cancer.

The person who wrote this is I believe a recent immigrant of Chinese origin. In the Chinese language there are no such thing as plural or singular. East Asian culture is very inductive, contrarily to Western culture which is deductive. In East

Examples of dietary factors: salt, heavy salt, table salt, salted fish, salted vegetables, salty snacks, etc. Moreover, there are orthographic errors in the tables, for example, sated fish.

No dietary variable was adjusted to eliminate the influence of other dietary factors in the review.

The most satisfacting response I got elsewhere was from this guy: anobium625 personal info: I am a retired engineering professor, but I also taught physics, math, history of science, and whatever. My interests include church, chess,

I noticed that a lot of people think analysis refers to an analysis that was carried out in the past or is was carried out in the present review; however, there is no such analysis that was mentionned before or was carried that adjusted dietary

Well, I think we can all agree that dietary variables refer to all the variables found in the analyses; THE ANALYSIS is certainly not a "donkey anaphora"--it is correlated with "each" "every" and other expressions of

I thought about this, but then it must be an anaphora, and the author did not say he was doing a metaanalysis of the studies encompassed in table 1 and 2.

Do you think that THE ANALYSIS is a donkey pronoun? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_pronoun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_quantifier

No, I really think the plural should have been used. But thank you for you response. I guess there's nothing else to really say about it since I have asked this question a million time.