Directed acyclic graphs helped to identify confounding in the association of disability and electrocardiographic findings: Results from the KORA-Age study

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 199-206

  Röhrig, Nadine ^a   Strobl, Ralf ^a   Müller, Martin ^a   Perz, Siegfried ^b   Kääb, Stefan ^c   Martens, Eimo ^c   Peters, Annette ^b   Linkohr, Birgit ^b   Grill, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aged; Cross sectional study; Directed acyclic graph (DAG); Disability evaluation; ECG abnormalities; Electrocardiography

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION;

EID: 84891627944     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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