On the pitfalls of adjusting for gestational age at birth

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 174, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1062-1068

  Wilcox, Allen J ^a   Weinberg, Clarice R ^a   Basso, Olga ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

adjustment; collider; directed acyclic graph; gestational age; infant mortality; mediating variable; premature birth; stratification

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIRTH RATE; INFANT MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMATURITY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURE LABOR; RISK FACTOR;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 80054892447     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr230     Document Type: Article

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