What would the trial be? Emulating randomized dietary intervention trials to estimate causal effects with observational data

Deirdre K Tobias^{1

2}, Martín Lajous^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Center for Research on Population Health, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

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Deirdre K Tobias et al. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021.

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. 2021 Aug 2;114(2):416-417.

doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqab169.

Deirdre K Tobias^{1

2}, Martín Lajous^{3

4}

¹ Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Center for Research on Population Health, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

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Estimating the effect of nutritional interventions using observational data: the American Heart Association's 2020 Dietary Goals and mortality.
Chiu YH, Chavarro JE, Dickerman BA, Manson JE, Mukamal KJ, Rexrode KM, Rimm EB, Hernán MA. Chiu YH, et al. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Aug 2;114(2):690-703. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqab100. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021. PMID: 34041538 Free PMC article.