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Biology — Causal DAG: Exercise & Heart Disease

Multiple confounders and a weight mediator.

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Exercise and heart diseaseEExerciseOHeart diseaseAAgeADJUST FORDDietADJUST FORWBody weightExposureOutcomeConfounderMediatorUnobservedIdentifiable — adjust for `Age` + `Diet`.Adjust for `Age` + `Diet` — a minimal sufficient set. Conditioning on those blocks every backdoor path from `Exercise` to `Heart disease`, and no proper subset of…

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title "Exercise and heart disease"
exposure E "Exercise"
outcome O "Heart disease"
confounder A "Age"
confounder D "Diet"
mediator W "Body weight"
E -> W
W -> O
E -> O
A -> E
A -> O
D -> E
D -> O