From bad to worse: collider stratification amplifies confounding bias in the “obesity paradox”

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1111-1114

  Banack, Hailey R ^a   Kaufman, Jay S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confounding bias; Obesity paradox; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; POPULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SELECTION BIAS; SMOKING; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; SELECTION BIAS; SMOKING;

EID: 84947031271     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-015-0069-7     Document Type: Article

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