%0 Journal Article
%A Maldonado-Cañón, Kevin
%A Möhl, Annika
%A Obi, Nadia
%A Behrens, Sabine
%A Flaßkamp, Fabian
%A Seibold, Petra
%A Chang-Claude, Jenny
%A Becher, Heiko
%T The Healthy Participant Effect: insights and results from a population-based case-control study on breast cancer.
%J American journal of epidemiology
%V 194
%N 4
%@ 0096-5294
%C Oxford
%I Oxford Univ. Press
%M DKFZ-2024-01341
%P 1058–1064
%D 2025
%Z Volume 194, Issue 4, April 2025, Pages 1058–1064
%X Agreement to participate in case-control studies has become low. Healthy participant bias resulting from differential response proportions in cases and controls can distort results; however, the magnitude of bias is difficult to assess. We investigated the effect in a large population-based case-control study on breast cancer, with a participation rate of 43.4
%K Breast Cancer (Other)
%K Case-control Study (Other)
%K Healthy Participant Effect (Other)
%K Standardized Mortality Ratio (Other)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:38918045
%R 10.1093/aje/kwae155
%U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/291255