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Estimation of the Standardized Risk Difference and Ratio in a Competing Risks Framework: Application to Injection Drug Use and Progression to AIDS After Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy.
- Source :
- American Journal of Epidemiology; Feb2015, Vol. 181 Issue 4, p238-245, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- There are few published examples of absolute risk estimated from epidemiologic data subject to censoring and competing risks with adjustment for multiple confounders. We present an example estimating the effect of injection drug use on 6-year risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) after initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy between 1998 and 2012 in an 8-site US cohort study with death before AIDS as a competing risk. We estimate the risk standardized to the total study sample by combining inverse probability weights with the cumulative incidence function; estimates of precision are obtained by bootstrap. In 7,182 patients (83% male, 33% African American, median age of 38 years), we observed 6-year standardized AIDS risks of 16.75% among 1,143 injection drug users and 12.08% among 6,039 nonusers, yielding a standardized risk difference of 4.68 (95% confidence interval: 1.27, 8.08) and a standardized risk ratio of 1.39 (95% confidence interval: 1.12, 1.72). Results may be sensitive to the assumptions of exposure-version irrelevance, no measurement bias, and no unmeasured confounding. These limitations suggest that results be replicated with refined measurements of injection drug use. Nevertheless, estimating the standardized risk difference and ratio is straightforward, and injection drug use appears to increase the risk of AIDS. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- AIDS risk factors
ANTIRETROVIRAL agents
MORTALITY risk factors
EPIDEMIOLOGY research methodology
COMPARATIVE studies
CONCEPTUAL structures
CONFIDENCE intervals
HIV-positive persons
LONGITUDINAL method
RESEARCH funding
SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry)
SECONDARY analysis
INTRAVENOUS drug abusers
PREDICTIVE validity
CONTROL groups
DISEASE incidence
PROPORTIONAL hazards models
RETROSPECTIVE studies
PATIENT dropouts
STATISTICAL models
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CONFOUNDING variables
ODDS ratio
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00029262
- Volume :
- 181
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101033180