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Preventing Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection to Prevent Asthma: The Missing Link

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: result of our adjustment for confounders.Moreover, the data in Ayubi and Safiri's Table 1 were not the same as ours.The numbers for non-asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap syndrome (unaffected) cases were 174 and 218 instead of 8 and 10.These numbers can be estimated from Table E1 in the online supplement of our article.We encourage other authors with similar data to consider applying Firth logistic regression or penalized logistic regression with data augmentation to reduce sparse data bias.

Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201702-0380le

Authors: Tebeb Gebretsadik, Pingsheng Wu, Kecia Carroll, William Dupont, Tina Hartert

Institutions: University of Tasmania, The University of Melbourne, Vanderbilt University, Monash University

Language: English

Topic: Respiratory viral infections research

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases