Food Processing and Incident Hypertension: Causal Relationship, Confounding, or Both?
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Causal relationship and confounding in statistical models.
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Hypertension
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0895-7061,1941-7225
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpw170