Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic

**Definition:** Factors that can cause or prevent the outcome of interest but are not intermediate variables of the factor(s) under investigation.

**Tree numbers:** - N05.715.350.240 - N06.850.490.718

**Synonyms:** - Confounding Factors, Epidemiology - Confounding Factors, Epidemiological - Confounding Variables, Epidemiologic - Confounding Variables, Epidemiological - Confounding Factor, Epidemiologic