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Activity Number:
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82
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, July 29, 2012 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Health Policy Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #306295 |
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Title:
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Examining the Effects of Soft Drink Consumption Using the Rubin Causal Model
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Author(s):
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Takisha Watson*+ and Ulrike Genschel and Heike Hofmann and Alicia L. Carriquiry
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Companies:
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Iowa State University and Iowa State University and Iowa State University and Iowa State University
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Address:
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809 Delaware Ave, Ames, IA, 50014, United States
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Keywords:
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Soft drink consumption ;
Rubin Causal Model ;
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
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Abstract:
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Are soft drinks really as bad as we are told?
Dietitians and health care experts encourage us to stay away from soft drinks, diet or not. The effects of soft drink consumption on our health include an increased risk for higher body weight, lower intake of nutrients such as calcium and diabetes for example (Vartanian, et al., 2007). Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) we will examine the health effects of soft drinks employing a Rubin Causal Model (Rubin, 1970, 2008; Holland 1986). Unlike other standard statistical analyses applied to observational data, the Rubin causal model allows us to draw causal inference about the treatment effect on the observational units of interest. So come and see what the evidence suggests.
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