The possible importance of income and education as covariates in cohort studies that investigate the relationship between diet and disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

  Many cohort studies have been carried out that have provided information on the relationship between diet and health-related outcomes. Omission of important covariates during multivariate analysis may give rise to error due to residual confounding. A possibly important covariate is socioeconomic status (SES) as this is related to both diet and health.

Objective

To determine the frequency with which different measures of SES are included as covariates during multivariate analysis of cohort studies that investigated the relationship between diet and health.

Methodology

  An analysis was carried out of 76 randomly selected papers from 66 cohort studies. The papers covered many dietary variables and a wide variety of diseases/health-related outcomes. The coho

SUBMITTER: Temple N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4897756 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature