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Had they done so, they might well have concluded that the misclassification error was indeed dwarfed by the under-reporting, and returned to a single quantification.)
The most important limitation of the current study may be the use of self-reported menarcheal age, and the misclassification associated with this recall over several decades may explain the negative findings that have been reported [ 11 ] . Over shorter (<10 years) periods, however, correlations between the first report of menarcheal age (obtained close to the time of menarche) and a subsequent report have generally been high [ 38 ] , with 60% of girls accurately recalling the month and year of menarche [ 39 ] . Among the 1014 girls in the current study who participated in more than one examination after menarche, 73% of the recalled ages (at the first and second reports) differed by one year or less, and only 5% differed by more than two years.
Our findings suggest that these estimates are strongly biased toward the null because of counting background, prevalent cases as incident cases in both exposed and unexposed groups (a form of nondifferential misclassification) and not considering the remarkably short period of exposure during which most observed differences in prevalence arose.
However, insignificant misclassification may exist, since a small percentage of asymptomatic coronary patients may be wrongly assigned to controls, even if they were evaluated by a cardiologist.
While these data are more comprehensive than previous studies on this topic, some misclassification error may exist because of intra-person variability or limitations of polysomnographic measurement.
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