Selection bias, confounding, or information bias? [9]

Hypertension

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Kabir, Zubair ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIET; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SAMPLING; TOBACCO; WAIST HIP RATIO;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SELECTION BIAS; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 34250888220     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.092320     Document Type: Letter

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