🎉 Celebrating what we've achieved in 2025! 🎉 🥳 See the top news stories of the year from our research themes 👇 📰 Read all our news of 2025 at www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/news/ #diet #PhysicalActivity #SurgicalInnovation #MentalHealth #DataScience #RespiratoryDisease

We're off and away with Summer School 2025! Jonathan Sterne @jonathanasterne.bsky.social is leading our Advanced causal inference course, ably assisted by tutors Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Marnie Downes, Daisy Shepherd and Jiaxin Zhang from CEBU.

1/ That "immortal time" is so frequent in survival analyses for #causalinference is fascinating. Because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data, *we* create it when misanalyzing the data. Our new paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39494894/ summarizes why immortal time arises & how to prevent it.

New paper by our PhD student Sophie Fairweather using Children of the 90s data to explore links between childhood allergic conditions + #Depression / #Anxiety in adolescence / early adulthood. Published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity. News tinyurl.com/3c3npadk Paper tinyurl.com/mw38dc25

Are childhood allergic conditions linked to anxiety and depression in early adulthood?

Researchers looking at potential links between childhood allergic conditions (such as eczema, asthma and food allergies) and depression/anxiety in adolesce

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