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Sperrin, Matthew; Candlish, Jane; Badrick, Ellena; Renehan, Andrew; Buchan, Iain
Epidemiology, 2016-July, Volume: 27, Issue: 4Journal Article
BACKGROUND:“Obesity paradox” refers to an association between obesity and reduced mortality (contrary to an expected increased mortality). A common explanation is collider stratification biasunmeasured confounding induced by selection bias. Here, we test this supposition through a realistic generative model. METHODS:We quantify the collider stratification bias in a selected population using counterfactual causal analysis. We illustrate the bias for a range of scenarios, describing associations between exposure (obesity), outcome (mortality), mediator (in this example, diabetes) and an unmeasured confounder. RESULTS:Collider stratification leads to biased estimation of the causal effect of exposure on outcome. However, the bias is small relative to the causal relationships between the variables. CONCLUSIONS:Collider bias can be a partial explanation of the obesity paradox, but unlikely to be the main explanation for a reverse direction of an association to a true causal relationship. Alternative explanations of the obesity paradox should be explored. See Video Abstract at http://links.lww.com/EDE/B51.
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