Web of Causation between Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity: Applying Hill's Criteria
Since their publication in 1965, the Bradford Hill criteria for causality have been largely used as a framework for causal inference in epidemiology. We aim at employing this classical approach to shed new light onto the web of causation of childhood obesity. Although the fundamental cause of obesit...
Main Authors: | Șerban Costela Lăcrimioara, Șerban Denis Mihai, Butica Ștefania Ioana, Lungeanu Diana |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2018-12-01
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Series: | Romanian Journal of Diabetes Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/rjdnmd-2018-0052 |
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