Does unmeasured confounding influence associations between the retail food environment and body mass index over time? The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study
Author(s) -
Pasquale E. Rummo,
David K. Guilkey,
Shu Wen Ng,
Katie A. Meyer,
Barry M. Popkin,
Jared P. Reis,
James M. Shikany,
Penny Gordon-Larsen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyx070
Subject(s) - confounding , body mass index , demography , medicine , confidence interval , overweight , obesity , ordinary least squares , neighbourhood (mathematics) , observational study , longitudinal study , regression analysis , statistics , mathematics , sociology , mathematical analysis , pathology
Findings in the observational retail food environment and obesity literature are inconsistent, potentially due to a lack of adjustment for residual confounding.
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