Oral Health—Head and Neck Cancers: Addressing Confounding Through Negative Control and Quantitative Bias Analyses
Negative control exposure analysis indicated that unmeasured confounding did not affect the association between oral health and HNC risk. QBA yielded corrected estimates of increased magnitude, suggesting that the crude associations may have been underestimated.
Authors
- Audrey V. Grant (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4197-0818)
- Belinda Farias Nicolau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2833-2317)
- P. Elango (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9201-3667)
- Nada J. Farsi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8762-2467)
- Sreenath Madathil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-6518)
- Marie Rousseau
Institutions
- McGill University Health Centre (CA)
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (CA)
- King Abdul Aziz University Hospital (SA)
- Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CA)
- McGill University (CA)
- Université de Montréal (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-12-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.70046
- Primary Topic
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Ministère de l'Économie, de l’Innovation et des Exportations du Québec
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research