Mediation analysis for a survival outcome with time-varying exposures, mediators, and confounders.

We propose an approach to conduct mediation analysis for survival data with time-varying exposures, mediators, and confounders. We identify certain interventional direct and indirect effects through a survival mediational g-formula and describe the required assumptions. We also provide a feasible pa...

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Publicado en:Statistics in Medicine Vol. 36; no. 18
Autores principales: Lin, Sheng-Hsuan, Young, Jessica G, Logan, Roger, VanderWeele, Tyler J
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 8/15/2017
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          Lin, Sheng-Hsuan
          Young, Jessica G
          Logan, Roger
          VanderWeele, Tyler J
        affil: Department of Biostatistics, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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          Confounding Variable
          Prospective Studies
          Survival Analysis
          Environmental Exposure Adverse Effects
          Coronary Arteriosclerosis Mortality
          Algorithms
          Risk Factors
          Models, Statistical
          Coronary Arteriosclerosis Epidemiology
          Smoking
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      ab: We propose an approach to conduct mediation analysis for survival data with time-varying exposures, mediators, and confounders. We identify certain interventional direct and indirect effects through a survival mediational g-formula and describe the required assumptions. We also provide a feasible parametric approach along with an algorithm and software to estimate these effects. We apply this method to analyze the Framingham Heart Study data to investigate the causal mechanism of smoking on mortality through coronary artery disease. The estimated overall 10-year all-cause mortality risk difference comparing "always smoke 30 cigarettes per day" versus "never smoke" was 4.3 (95% CI = (1.37, 6.30)). Of the overall effect, we estimated 7.91% (95% CI: = 1.36%, 19.32%) was mediated by the incidence and timing of coronary artery disease. The survival mediational g-formula constitutes a powerful tool for conducting mediation analysis with longitudinal data.
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