Evidence item

The report gives a pooled odds ratio of 1.94 but explicitly grades certainty very low and cautions that association does not establish causation. DATASET_RESULT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 18564

Source: Gut Infections Nearly Double the Odds of Childhood Stunting, Global Meta-Analysis Finds · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:aaad78e83afb1c96ae7cd33bf7d715e79ee1e3e36e4bae2215d6d66599dc14a0

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Across fourteen independent studies pooling data from thousands of children, any enteric infection was associated with nearly double the odds of stunting, an odds ratio of 1.94 with a 95 percent confidence interval of 1.33 to 2.82. Yet the authors also graded the certainty of that evidence as very low ... Association is not causation, reverse causality remains possible.

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