Why Do Thin People Have Elevated All-Cause Mortality? Evidence on Confounding and Reverse Causality in the Association of Adiposity and COPD from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study

Low adiposity has been linked to elevated mortality from several causes including respiratory disease. However, this could arise from confounding or reverse causality. We explore the association between two measures of adiposity (BMI and WHR) with COPD in the British Women’s Heart and Health Study i...

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Autores principales: Dale, Caroline, Nüesch, Eveline, Prieto-Merino, David, Choi, Minkyoung, Amuzu, Antoinette, Ebrahim, Shah, Casas, Juan P., Davey-Smith, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4401726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25884834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115446

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