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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24608666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000075 |