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SUMMARY:Birth-weight-specific mortality curves: Are appearances deceiving?
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 The association between birth weight and early 
 mortality is among the strongest seen in epidemiology. 
  While preterm delivery causes both 
 small births and high mortality, it does not 
 explain the association.  The nature of the 
 relatio nbetween birth weight and mortality 
 is subject to debate.  Among the evidence against 
 a causal effect of birth weight on mortality 
 often have better survival than small babies 
 from a lower-risk population.  This phenomenon 
 can in principle be explained entirely 
 by the presence of unmeasured confounding factors 
 that increased mortality and decrease birth 
 weight.  This talk describes how the birth-weight-specific 
 mortality curve may be accurately 
 reproduced assuming strong confounding 
 and no causal effect of birth weight on mortality. 
  These same assumptions can, additionally, 
 demonstrate how unknown confounders can 
 cause mortality curves stratified by known risk 
 factors to intersect.  Presented by Dr. Olga 
 Basso of the National Institutes of Environmental 
 Health Sciences (NIEHS) as part of the 
 Department of Epidemiology's Spring Seminar 
 Series.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Ashley James\n
 Contact email: ajames@epi.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.epi.msu.edu/seminars.htm\n
LOCATION:C102 East Fee Hall
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