Journal article
Confounding is not the only bias influencing associations of adiposity with cardiovascular disease
- Abstract:
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There has been much discussion in the epidemiological literature about the so-called “obesity paradox”, where being overweight or obese appears to be protective for mortality in studies including individuals with prior cardiovascular disease (CVD). These inferences are based on the J shaped associations observed between body-mass index (BMI) and mortality in such populations, but it has been argued that these are a result of biases (such as selection bias2) rather than obesity conferring a tr...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- European Heart Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 17
- Pages:
- 1521–1522
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-02-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1522-9645
- ISSN:
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0195-668X
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:826795
- UUID:
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uuid:f9c5e6f7-49b8-4ca9-b40a-3edec6d02f79
- Local pid:
- pubs:826795
- Source identifiers:
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826795
- Deposit date:
- 2018-02-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Natalie Staplin
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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