Assuming this pattern holds in populations outside the US, unadjusted risk estimates with general population controls would over-estimate any protective effect of endotoxin exposure.
Healthy control participants significantly over-estimated the proportion of trials they performed correctly, consistent with a positive judgment bias.
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Since case-control studies reportedly over-estimate the accuracy result [ 24], the study design was scored as follows: studies with cross-sectional were assigned one point; those with case-control were assigned zero points.
Importantly, these results suggest that the positive aspects of using gavage (i.e. precise control of exposures) may over-estimate the value of this exposure route, and thus other large GLP-compliant studies that have used gavage but have not measured BPA and BPA metabolites in serum to evaluate actual contamination should be examined with more caution (for example, [ 53, 54]).
A case-control study design may potentially over-estimate the predictive value of a test, but we have attempted to eliminate further bias by comparing the tests using an independent reference standard (microbiologically confirmed disease) according to STARD guidelines.
Lack of control for baseline function may also over-estimate the magnitude of treatment-related decrements in quality of life.
