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Obesity Paradox: Conditioning on Disease Enhances Biases in Estimating the Mortality Risks of Obesity

BACKGROUND: Many studies have documented an obesity paradox—a survival advantage of being obese—in populations diagnosed with a medical condition. Whether obesity is causally associated with improved mortality in these conditions is unresolved. METHODS: We develop the logic of collider bias as it pe...

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Päätekijät: Preston, Samuel H., Stokes, Andrew
Aineistotyyppi: Artigo
Kieli:Inglês
Julkaistu: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2014
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Linkit:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984024/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24608666
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000075
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