Biostatistics & Study Design USMLE Step 1 Practice Question
A 67 year old man from a state with high per capita red wine consumption has a myocardial infarction. A researcher argues that this individual probably had a low cardiovascular risk because states with higher red wine consumption have lower ischemic heart disease mortality. Which of the following best describes the error in this reasoning?
Answer choices
- ARecall bias
- BLead time bias
- CEcological fallacyCorrect answer
- DConfounding by indication
- ESpectrum bias
- FBerkson bias
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