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Robert W Platt

McGill University
Verified email at mcgill.ca
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Cardiovascular disease-related morbidity and mortality in women with a history of pregnancy complications: systematic review and meta-analysis

SM Grandi, KB Filion, S Yoon, HT Ayele, CM Doyle… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Women with a history of certain pregnancy complications are at higher risk for
cardiovascular (CVD) disease. However, most clinical guidelines only recommend …

Improving blood pressure control through pharmacist interventions: a meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials

V Santschi, A Chiolero, AL Colosimo… - Journal of the …, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Control of blood pressure (BP) remains a major challenge in primary care.
Innovative interventions to improve BP control are therefore needed. By updating and …

A systematic review identifies a lack of standardization in methods for handling missing variance data

N Wiebe, B Vandermeer, RW Platt, TP Klassen… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To describe and critically appraise available methods
for handling missing variance data in meta-analysis (MA). METHODS: Systematic review …

Overadjustment bias and unnecessary adjustment in epidemiologic studies

EF Schisterman, SR Cole, RW Platt - Epidemiology, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Overadjustment is defined inconsistently. This term is meant to describe control (eg, by
regression adjustment, stratification, or restriction) for a variable that either increases net …

A new and improved population-based Canadian reference for birth weight for gestational age

MS Kramer, RW Platt, SW Wen, KS Joseph, A Allen… - …, 2001 - publications.aap.org
Background. Existing fetal growth references all suffer from 1 or more major methodologic
problems, including errors in reported gestational age, biologically implausible birth weight …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing bias through directed acyclic graphs

I Shrier, RW Platt - BMC medical research methodology, 2008 - Springer
Background The objective of most biomedical research is to determine an unbiased
estimate of effect for an exposure on an outcome, ie to make causal inferences about the …

Breastfeeding and child cognitive development: new evidence from a large randomized trial

MS Kramer, F Aboud, E Mironova… - Archives of general …, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Context The evidence that breastfeeding improves cognitive development is based almost
entirely on observational studies and is thus prone to confounding by subtle behavioral …

The contribution of mild and moderate preterm birth to infant mortality

MS Kramer, K Demissie, H Yang, RW Platt, R Sauvé… - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
ContextThe World Health Organization defines preterm birth as birth at less than 37
completed gestational weeks, but most studies have focused on very preterm infants (birth …

Illustrating bias due to conditioning on a collider

SR Cole, RW Platt, EF Schisterman… - International journal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
That conditioning on a common effect of exposure and outcome may cause selection, or
collider-stratification, bias is not intuitive. We provide two hypothetical examples to convey …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding on child height, weight, adiposity, and blood pressure at age 6.5 y: evidence from a large randomized trial

MS Kramer, L Matush, I Vanilovich, RW Platt… - The American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Background: The evidence that breastfeeding protects against obesity and a variety of
chronic diseases comes almost entirely from observational studies, which have a potential …