context: The seemingly conflicting findings may be the result of the different diseases and populations of women that were studied, with weight perhaps playing a greater role in diabetes and fitness possibly more important for heart disease, Frank and others said.
I could understand the meaning of the population[size=18]s[/size], because what I often saw is "population".
I guess populations = age groups here.
In addition,
With = because
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Hello Jobb ! ) "non-NativeEnglish" authors of these texts. Your passage seems to be a good example for this....
— Sonja
Hello Jobb !
) "non-NativeEnglish" authors of these texts.
Your passage seems to be a good example for this....
Also, Authors of scientific texts (often research results) try cramming alot of information (findings....
this sometimes creates endless clusters of relative clauses, which are hard to follow (especially for "foreign" readers) and even distort the meaning....
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