ArticleEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2017
"Selection Bias by Death" and Other Ways Collider Bias May Cause the Obesity Paradox.
Article in Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Body mass index and hospital mortality in mechanically ventilated patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: A retrospective cohort study.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2026Article
- Causal effects of body composition on lifespan: Mendelian randomization analysis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- The impact of body mass index on long-term survival after ICU admission due to COVID-19: A retrospective multicentre study.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2023Article
- Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI-mortality association.Population studies · 2023Article
- Social inequality and the risk of living in a nursing home: implications for the COVID-19 pandemic.Genus · 2021Article
- Epidemiology and outcomes of obese critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2020Observational
- Accounting for biases in survey-based estimates of population attributable fractions.Population health metrics · 2019Article
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