Longitudinal causal effect of modified creatinine index on all-cause mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease: Accounting for time-varying confounders using G-estimation

• Mohammad Aryaie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

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• Hamid Sharifi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Centre for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Azadeh Saber,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Physiology Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Farzaneh Salehi,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Mahyar Etminan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medicine and Pharmacology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Maryam Nazemipour,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Ali Mansournia

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mansournia_ma@yahoo.com, mansournia_ma@sina.tums.ac.ir

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3343-2718

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