Abstract：
:Bias due to selective mortality is a potential concern in many studies and is especially relevant in cognitive aging research because cognitive impairment strongly predicts subsequent mortality. Biased estimation of the effect of an exposure on rate of cognitive decline can occur when mortality is a common effect of exposure and an unmeasured determinant of cognitive decline and in similar settings. This potential is often represented as collider-stratification bias in directed acyclic graphs, but it is difficult to anticipate the magnitude of bias. In this paper, we present a flexible simulation platform with which to quantify the expected bias in longitudinal studies of determinants of cognitive decline. We evaluated potential survival bias in naive analyses under several selective survival scenarios, assuming that exposure had no effect on cognitive decline for anyone in the population. Compared with the situation with no collider bias, the magnitude of bias was higher when exposure and an unmeasured determinant of cognitive decline interacted on the hazard ratio scale to influence mortality or when both exposure and rate of cognitive decline influenced mortality. Bias was, as expected, larger in high-mortality situations. This simulation platform provides a flexible tool for evaluating biases in studies with high mortality, as is common in cognitive aging research.
journal_name
Am J Epidemioljournal_title
American journal of epidemiologyauthors
Mayeda ER,Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ,Power MC,Weuve J,Jacqmin-Gadda H,Marden JR,Vittinghoff E,Keiding N,Glymour MMdoi
10.1093/aje/kwv451subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-09-01 00:00:00pages
378-87issue
5eissn
0002-9262issn
1476-6256pii
kwv451journal_volume
184pub_type
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