Change analysis for intermediate disease markers in nutritional epidemiology: a causal inference perspective

Abstract Background Several approaches are commonly used to estimate the effect of diet on changes of various intermediate disease markers in prospective studies, including “change-score analysis”, “concurrent change-change analysis” and “lagged change-change analysis”. Although empirical evidence s...

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Main Authors: Dan Tang, Yifan Hu, Ning Zhang, Xiong Xiao, Xing Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-02-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02167-9