Are infectious diseases risk factors for sarcoidosis or a result of reverse causation? Findings from a population-based nested case–control study

Findings from molecular studies suggesting that several infectious agents cause sarcoidosis are intriguing yet conflicting and likely biased due to their cross-sectional design. As done in other inflammatory diseases to overcome this issue, prospectively-collected register data could be used, but re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	European journal of epidemiology 2020-11, Vol.35 (11), p.1087-1097
Hauptverfasser:	Rossides, Marios, Kullberg, Susanna, Askling, Johan, Eklund, Anders, Grunewald, Johan, Di Giuseppe, Daniela, Arkema, Elizabeth V.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aged Antiinfectives and antibacterials Bias Cardiology Case studies Case-Control Studies Causality Causation Communicable Diseases - epidemiology Communicable Diseases - etiology Confidence intervals Cross-Sectional Studies Epidemiology Etiology Humans Infectious Diseases Inflammatory diseases Latency Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Oncology Population control Population Surveillance Population-based studies Public Health Regression analysis Risk analysis Risk Factors Robustness (mathematics) Sarcoidosis Sarcoidosis - epidemiology Sarcoidosis - etiology Statistical analysis Sweden - epidemiology
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