Lifestyle risk factors and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: assessing the influence of reverse causation in a prospective cohort of 457,021 US adults

ConclusionsMethods to account for reverse causation suggest different effects of reverse causation on the associations between lifestyle risk factors and mortality. Exclusion of participants with diseases at baseline, and exclusion of 5 –10 years of follow-up may be necessary to mitigate reverse causation.
Source: European Journal of Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research