ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2021
Bias due to Selection on Live Births in Studies of Environmental Exposures during Pregnancy: A Simulation Study.
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Abstract
backgroundStudies of the effects of prenatal environmental exposures on postnatal outcomes are particularly vulnerable to live birth bias; i.e., the bias that arises from the necessary restriction of the analysis to live births when that is influenced by both the exposure under study
objectivesIn the context of a recent publication of nitrogen dioxide (
methodsWe simulated the magnitude of bias under two selection mechanisms and when both mechanisms co-occur, assuming a true null effect. Simulation input parameters were based on characteristics of the original study and a range of plausible values for the prevalence of unmeasured factor
resultsWe found that the magnitude of bias was small when DISCUSSION: Our simulations illustrate that live birth bias may lead to exposure-outcome associations that are biased downward, where the extent of the bias depends on the fetal selection mechanism, the strength of that selection, and the prevalence of
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