Risk factor reversal in studies of infectious disease: Making counterintuitive results intuitive again

Jay S. Kaufman; Hailey R. Banack; Joëlla W. Adams; Brandon D.L. Marshall; Steven D. Stovitz

doi:10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000911

Risk factor reversal in studies of infectious disease: Making counterintuitive results intuitive again

Jay S. Kaufman
, Hailey R. Banack
, Joëlla W. Adams
, Brandon D.L. Marshall
, Steven D. Stovitz

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

McGill University
Brown University
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	E5-E7
Journal	Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000911
State	Published - Jan 1 2019

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