TY - JOUR
T1 - Blood pressure and the risk of chronic kidney disease progression using multistate marginal structural models in the CRIC Study
AU - CRIC Study Investigators
AU - Stephens-Shields, Alisa J.
AU - Spieker, Andrew J.
AU - Anderson, Amanda
AU - Drawz, Paul
AU - Fischer, Michael
AU - Sozio, Stephen M.
AU - Feldman, Harold
AU - Joffe, Marshall
AU - Yang, Wei
AU - Greene, Tom
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2017/11/20
Y1 - 2017/11/20
N2 - In patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), clinical interest often centers on determining treatments and exposures that are causally related to renal progression. Analyses of longitudinal clinical data in this population are often complicated by clinical competing events, such as end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and death, and time-dependent confounding, where patient factors that are predictive of later exposures and outcomes are affected by past exposures. We developed multistate marginal structural models (MS-MSMs) to assess the effect of time-varying systolic blood pressure on disease progression in subjects with CKD. The multistate nature of the model allows us to jointly model disease progression characterized by changes in the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), the onset of ESRD, and death, and thereby avoid unnatural assumptions of death and ESRD as noninformative censoring events for subsequent changes in eGFR. We model the causal effect of systolic blood pressure on the probability of transitioning into 1 of 6 disease states given the current state. We use inverse probability weights with stabilization to account for potential time-varying confounders, including past eGFR, total protein, serum creatinine, and hemoglobin. We apply the model to data from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study, a multisite observational study of patients with CKD.
AB - In patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), clinical interest often centers on determining treatments and exposures that are causally related to renal progression. Analyses of longitudinal clinical data in this population are often complicated by clinical competing events, such as end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and death, and time-dependent confounding, where patient factors that are predictive of later exposures and outcomes are affected by past exposures. We developed multistate marginal structural models (MS-MSMs) to assess the effect of time-varying systolic blood pressure on disease progression in subjects with CKD. The multistate nature of the model allows us to jointly model disease progression characterized by changes in the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), the onset of ESRD, and death, and thereby avoid unnatural assumptions of death and ESRD as noninformative censoring events for subsequent changes in eGFR. We model the causal effect of systolic blood pressure on the probability of transitioning into 1 of 6 disease states given the current state. We use inverse probability weights with stabilization to account for potential time-varying confounders, including past eGFR, total protein, serum creatinine, and hemoglobin. We apply the model to data from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study, a multisite observational study of patients with CKD.
KW - causal inference
KW - inverse probability weighting
KW - multistate models
KW - renal disease progression
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U2 - 10.1002/sim.7425
DO - 10.1002/sim.7425
M3 - Article
C2 - 28791722
AN - SCOPUS:85030314739
SN - 0277-6715
VL - 36
SP - 4167
EP - 4181
JO - Statistics in Medicine
JF - Statistics in Medicine
IS - 26
ER -