Bias from Exposure Effects on Controls

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Mitchell H. Gail

Mitchell H. Gail

National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

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First published: 15 July 2005

Abstract

In hospital-based case–control studies, exposures in cases are compared with exposures in controls in the hospital, who have other diseases. Exposure odds ratios (and disease odds ratios) will be biased if the exposures under study are associated with the control diseases.

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