Re: Collider Bias Is Only a Partial Explanation for the Obesity Paradox.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Methodological considerations for disentangling a risk factor's influence on disease incidence versus postdiagnosis survival: The example of obesity and breast and colorectal cancer mortality in the Women's Health Initiative.International journal of cancer · 2017
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2. Simple graphical rules for assessing selection bias in general-population and selected-sample treatment effects.American journal of epidemiology · 2025
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3. Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide.Population health metrics · 2023
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4. Inverse association of mortality and body mass index in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction of both ischemic and non-ischemic etiologies.Clinical cardiology · 2021
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5. Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study.BMC medicine · 2020
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6. Does selective survival before study enrolment attenuate estimated effects of education on rate of cognitive decline in older adults? A simulation approach for quantifying survival bias in life course epidemiology.International journal of epidemiology · 2018
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7. Can Survival Bias Explain the Age Attenuation of Racial Inequalities in Stroke Incidence?: A Simulation Study.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018
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8. The Authors Respond.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017
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9. The Authors Respond.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Asking Too Much of Epidemiologic Studies: The Problem of Collider Bias and the Obesity Paradox.2017
• Commented on by
  The Authors Respond.2017
• Comment on
  Collider Bias Is Only a Partial Explanation for the Obesity Paradox.2016

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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