{"id":467,"date":"2019-04-23T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/?p=467"},"modified":"2019-04-23T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:32:55","slug":"aitiologikes-sxeseis-stin-iatro-biolog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/aitiologikes-sxeseis-stin-iatro-biolog\/","title":{"rendered":"Causal Relationships in Biomedical Research: The meaning of Moderator, Mediator and Confounding Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[authors]<\/p>\n<p>\u039d. \u039aollia<sup>1<\/sup>, \u039c. Giannakoulia<sup>1<\/sup>, C. Papageorgiou<sup>2<\/sup>, D.\u0392. Panagiotakos<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Department of Science of Dietetics and Nutrition, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece,<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[\/authors]<\/p>\n<p>[summary]<\/p>\n<p>The attribution of causal relationships in research in general, and particularly in biomedical research, and the investigation of the mechanisms involved, remain issues of major importance; their clarification al-lows for the design of appropriate interventions for a positive outcome. In this effort, the concepts of the effect modifier, the mediator as well as the confounding factor have a distinct role. The present work is an attempt to distinguish between the aforementioned concepts and present the appropriate statistical techniques in order to evaluate them. <strong><em>Hellenic J Nutr Diet 2018, 5(1):19-25<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/summary]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attribution of causal relationships in research in general, and particularly in biomedical research, and the investigation of the mechanisms involved, remain issues of major importance; their clarification al-lows for the design of appropriate interventions for a positive outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,413,412],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}