Time-varying confounders in association between general and central obesity and coronary heart disease: Longitudinal targeted maximum likelihood estimation on atherosclerosis risk in communities study

Aim: This study examines the association between general and central obesity and the risk of cardiovascular diseases, utilizing the Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimator (TMLE) method to account for time-varying covariates and also we compares the findings with those derived from conventional regres...

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Main Authors: Hossein Mozafar Saadati, PhD, Niloufar Taherpour, MSc, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari, MD, MPH, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
Series:Global Epidemiology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590113325000112
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