Confounding: Everything you need to know in 5 minutes!

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Higher level teaching point: Confounder is a common cause* of the exposure and outcome and not on the causal pathway.
*Markers of a common cause also fall in that bucket. For age to be a confounder it does not have to cause anything but it is a marker for other factors which might cause both exposure and outcome