account for

"Especially for the children with cochlear implants, it was such a strong predictor that even three years later, we were able to account for some of the differences in their language skills."

AAA surgery accounts for 0.2% of annual vascular service activity, the health board added, and about 6.5% of vascular surgical procedures.

It was affected by a weak performance in the services sector - which accounts for more than three-quarters of the economy - which grew by just 0.1%.

This conclusion remains significant even after accounting for factors like birth order, sanitation practices, maternal height, sibling count, education, anaemia and household socio-economic status.

“Of course I worry about being banned. It hasn’t been easy, running this account for two years,” Shi, 59, said in an interview.