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Erschienen in: European Journal of Epidemiology 7/2017

15.05.2017 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The combined association of alcohol consumption with dementia risk is likely biased due to lacking account of death cases

verfasst von: Nadine Binder, Lisa Manderscheid, Martin Schumacher

Erschienen in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Ausgabe 7/2017

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Xu et al. [1] perform a meta-analysis to investigate the potential dose–response association between alcohol consumption and risk of dementia. Despite the thoroughly conducted dose–response analysis, an often disregarded statistical flaw shown to affect dementia studies challenges the overall findings: …
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Metadaten
Titel
The combined association of alcohol consumption with dementia risk is likely biased due to lacking account of death cases
verfasst von
Nadine Binder
Lisa Manderscheid
Martin Schumacher
Publikationsdatum
15.05.2017
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
European Journal of Epidemiology / Ausgabe 7/2017
Print ISSN: 0393-2990
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7284
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-017-0252-0

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