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Causal diagram illustrating number of health-care encounters as a confounder of the observed relationship between diabetes and depression. A) Basic causal model, where number of health-care encounters can serve as a confounder of the proposed (dotted line) diabetes-depression relationship. B) Causal model in which number of encounters may serve as a proxy for general illness.
