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Jobb Posted 22 years ago
Medical & Dental Studies

Populations

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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....

  • 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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Hello Jobb ! Emotion: surprise)
I frequently help some of my profs here in Giessen "read" medical and other scientific English texts and our e

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