Why Do Thin People Have Elevated All-Cause Mortality? Evidence on Confounding and Reverse Causality in the Association of Adiposity and COPD from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study

Caroline Dale; Eveline Nüesch; David Prieto-Merino; Minkyoung Choi; Antoinette Amuzu; Shah Ebrahim; Juan P. Casas; George Davey-Smith

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115446

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Why Do Thin People Have Elevated All-Cause Mortality? Evidence on Confounding and Reverse Causality in the Association of Adiposity and COPD from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study

Caroline Dale ,

* E-mail: caroline.dale@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Eveline Nüesch,

Affiliation Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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David Prieto-Merino,

Affiliation Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Minkyoung Choi,

Affiliation Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Antoinette Amuzu,

Affiliation Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Shah Ebrahim,

Affiliation Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Juan P. Casas,

Affiliations Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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George Davey-Smith

Affiliation CAiTE centre, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Why Do Thin People Have Elevated All-Cause Mortality? Evidence on Confounding and Reverse Causality in the Association of Adiposity and COPD from the British Women’s Heart and Health Study

Caroline Dale,
Eveline Nüesch,
David Prieto-Merino,
Minkyoung Choi,
Antoinette Amuzu,
Shah Ebrahim,
Juan P. Casas,
George Davey-Smith

Published: April 17, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115446

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