Journal:
:iranian journal of medical sciences
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rahmatollah moradzadeh department of epidemiology, school of nursing and midwifery, islamic azad university, sanandaj, iran
jafar hassanzadeh deptment of epidemiology, school of health and nutrition, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran
abdolreza rajaee fard deptment of epidemiology, school of health and nutrition, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran
sedigheh tahmasebi deptment of general surgery, mottahari clinic, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran
parvaneh golmohammadi department of epidemiology, school of nursing and midwifery, islamic azad university, sanandaj, iran
background: the traditional methods of studying the gene-environment interactions need a control group. however, the selection of an appropriate control group has been associated with problems. therefore, new methods, such as case-only design, have been created to study such interactions. the objective of this study was to compare the case-only and case-control designs using data from patients ...