Selection bias: "The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. stovitz@umn.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Comment

Steven D Stovitz et al. Int J Obes (Lond). 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;46(6):1247.

doi: 10.1038/s41366-021-00981-5. Epub 2022 Feb 9.

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. stovitz@umn.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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