Risk Factor Reversal in Studies of Infectious Disease: Making Counterintuitive Results Intuitive Again.
Sex Transm Dis
; 46(1): e5-e7, 2019 01.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30234795
ABSTRACT
A previously published study reported the seemingly paradoxical finding that men who have sex with men status was strongly protective and recent sexual abstinence strongly deleterious in relation to mortality prognosis. We explain why these results are entirely logical and that the counterintuitive direction of the effects derives from the comparison group implied by the study design.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Cannabis
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Infecções por HIV
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Minorias Sexuais e de Gênero
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article