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ArticleBMJ medicine2025

Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors.

Dan Lewer, Thomas Brothers, Elizabeth O'Nions, John Pickavance

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Article in BMJ medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Dan LewerBradford Centre for Health Data Science, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3698-7196
Thomas BrothersDepartment of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5570-5556
Elizabeth O'Nions *Bradford Centre for Health Data Science, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4427-0910
John Pickavance *Bradford Centre for Health Data Science, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5259-5291

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID41181819
PMCPMC12574381

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