Case-control studies on risk factors for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: How does the sampling of the cases and controls affect the results?

Clinical Respiratory Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-96

  Sorheim, Inga Cecilie ^a,b   Johannessen, Ane ^b   Grydeland, Thomas Blix ^b   Omenaas, Ernst Reidar ^a,b   Gulsvik, Amund ^a,b   Bakke, Per Sigvald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Epidemiology; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SELECTION BIAS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77949893058     PISSN: 17526981     EISSN: 1752699X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-699X.2009.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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