Should we use standard survival models or the illness-death model for interval-censored data to investigate risk factors of chronic kidney disease progression?

<h4>Background</h4>In studies investigating risk factors of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression, one may be interested in estimating factors effects on both a fall of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) below a specific level (i.e., a CKD stage) and death. Such studies have to account...

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Main Authors: Julie Boucquemont, Marie Metzger, Christian Combe, Bénédicte Stengel, Karen Leffondre, NephroTest Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114839