Over-matching can cause bias

Over-matching in case-control studies can be a design fault and may lead to bias, say Marsh and colleagues (p 327). They describe a case-control study of workers at a nuclear reprocessing plant in which over-matching obscured the relation between cumulative radiation dose and mortality from leukaemia.

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