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Comment
. 2014 Mar;100(6):517-8.
doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-305406. Epub 2014 Jan 16.

Ischaemic heart disease, influenza and influenza vaccination: a prospective case control study

Elizabeth Rogawski  1 , Leah McGrath, Nadja Vielot, Daniel Westreich
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Ischaemic heart disease, influenza and influenza vaccination: a prospective case control study

Elizabeth Rogawski et al. Heart. 2014 Mar.
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Causal diagrams showing the confounding control strategy used by the authors (A) and the appropriate control strategy for estimating an unbiased total effect of influenza vaccination on AMI (B). Boxes around variables indicate inclusion in the multivariate regression model (“control” of the variable).
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