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Chapter 1.3, Problem 27E
Secondhand smoke: A recent study compared the heart rates of 19 infants born to nonsmoking mothers with those of 17 infants born to mothers who smoked an average of 15 cigarettes a day while pregnant and after giving birth. The heart rates of the infants at one year of age were 20% slower on the average for the smoking mothers.
- What is the outcome variable?
- What is the treatment variable?
- Was this a cohort study or a case-control study?
- Was the study prospective, cross-sectional, or retrospective?
- Could the results be due to confounding? Explain.
Source: Environmental Health Perspectives 118:a158—a159
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