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Misclassification might have occurred for controls that did not provide dried blood specimens (DBS) and therefore could not be confirmed to be truly seronegative for HCV.
This misclassification might have biased the results.
Such misclassification might have overestimated the true prevalence of substance use among adolescents.
Therefore, we cannot rule out that bias or misclassification might have occurred.
Exposure misclassification might have biased the study results due to the imprecise measurements.
Exposure misclassification might have occurred for those who changed their residences and therefore their exposure status.
The third limitation is the assessment of alcohol intake based on a questionnaire, therefore underreporting or misclassification might have occurred.
The non-differential outcome misclassification might have biased the magnitude of the observed associations toward the null.
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