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Comment
. 2015 Nov;123(11):A288.
doi: 10.1289/ehp.123-A288.

Bias in Environmental Cohort Studies: The Example of Bone Lead and Mortality

Carol Potera
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Bias in Environmental Cohort Studies: The Example of Bone Lead and Mortality

Carol Potera. Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Nov.

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Directed acyclic graphs helped researchers pinpoint areas where bias related to recruitment and participation may have affected the Normative Aging Study and similar studies. © Echo/Getty Images; Weisskopf et al. (2015)
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