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:Diagnostic accuracy and optimal cutoff points of risk factors is one of the important issues in medical decisions. In order to reassess the cutoff points of markers, longitudinal and time-to-event data of elderly individuals were collected repeatedly through 3 follow-up stages in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study. Time-dependent area under the ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves (AUCs) based on the joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data technique were measured. AUCs were considered to evaluate the discriminative potential of the models. The joint model produced higher AUC values than the Cox model; therefore, accuracy was improved although it is computationally complicated. The results had some differences with the thresholds reported in guidelines due to specificity to the population and/or the means of estimation methods. The estimated cutoff points with regard to sex can be used as a guideline for the Iranian elderly population.
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Asia Pac J Public Healthjournal_title
Asia-Pacific journal of public healthauthors
Shakeri N,Azizi Fdoi
10.1177/1010539519889767subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-11-01 00:00:00pages
728-736issue
8eissn
1010-5395issn
1941-2479journal_volume
31pub_type
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