Estimating the Time-Varying Joint Effects of Obesity and Smoking on All-Cause Mortality Using Marginal Structural Models

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 122-129

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

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

interaction; marginal structural model; obesity; smoking

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY RISK; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84959307239     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv168     Document Type: Article

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