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Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) showing causal relationships hypothesized to underlie the association between systemic oxidative stress (as reflected by serum free thiol levels) and the risk of incident CKD in the general population. Based on the DAG, a specific set of confounding factors was conditioned for in order to obtain an unconfounded effect estimate.
