Estimating the association between blood pressure variability and cardiovascular disease: An application using the ARIC Study.
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Publication Date
2019-05-10Journal Title
Stat Med
ISSN
0277-6715
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
38
Issue
10
Pages
1855-1868
Language
eng
Type
Article
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VoR
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Print-Electronic
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Barrett, J. K., Huille, R., Parker, R., Yano, Y., & Griswold, M. (2019). Estimating the association between blood pressure variability and cardiovascular disease: An application using the ARIC Study.. Stat Med, 38 (10), 1855-1868. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8074
Abstract
The association between visit-to-visit systolic blood pressure variability and cardiovascular events has recently received a lot of attention in the cardiovascular literature. But, blood pressure variability is usually estimated on a person-by-person basis and is therefore subject to considerable measurement error. We demonstrate that hazard ratios estimated using this approach are subject to bias due to regression dilution, and we propose alternative methods to reduce this bias: a two-stage method and a joint model. For the two-stage method, in stage one, repeated measurements are modelled using a mixed effects model with a random component on the residual standard deviation (SD). The mixed effects model is used to estimate the blood pressure SD for each individual, which, in stage two, is used as a covariate in a time-to-event model. For the joint model, the mixed effects submodel and time-to-event submodel are fitted simultaneously using shared random effects. We illustrate the methods using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.
Keywords
Humans, Cardiovascular Diseases, Prognosis, Models, Statistical, Risk Factors, Longitudinal Studies, Blood Pressure, Systole, Computer Simulation, Middle Aged, United States, Female, Male, Datasets as Topic
Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (MR/K014811/1)
MRC (unknown)
Medical Research Council (MR/L003120/1)
British Heart Foundation (None)
Medical Research Council (G0700463)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8074
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287626
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