Comparing marginal structural models to standard methods for estimating treatment effects of antihypertensive combination therapy

Comparing marginal structural models to standard methods for estimating treatment effects of antihypertensive combination therapy

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Due to time-dependent confounding by blood pressure and differential loss to follow-up, it is difficult to estimate the effectiveness of aggressive versus conventional antihypertensive combination therapies in non-randomized comparis...

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Main Authors: Gerhard Tobias, Delaney Joseph AC, Cooper-DeHoff Rhonda M, Shuster Jonathan, Brumback Babette A, Johnson Julie A, Pepine Carl J, Winterstein Almut G
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-08-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Blood pressure
Hypertension
Time-dependent confounding
Marginal structural models
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/119

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