History-Adjusted Marginal Structural Analysis of the Association between Hemoglobin Variability and Mortality among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients | Zendy

Steven M. Brunelli | Zendy; Marshall M. Joffe | Zendy; Rubeen Israni | Zendy; Wei Yang | Zendy; Steven Fishbane | Zendy; Jeffrey S. Berns | Zendy; Harold I. Feldman | Zendy

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History-Adjusted Marginal Structural Analysis of the Association between Hemoglobin Variability and Mortality among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients

Author(s) -

Steven M. Brunelli,

Marshall M. Joffe,

Rubeen Israni,

Wei Yang,

Steven Fishbane,

Jeffrey S. Berns,

Harold I. Feldman

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.04281007

Subject(s) - medicine , hemoglobin , marginal structural model , confounding , hazard ratio , confidence interval , dialysis , hemodialysis , cohort study , anemia

Hemoglobin variability is common among dialysis patients, and has been associated with increased mortality. The causal nature of this association has been difficult to ascertain because of potential time-dependent confounding, for which traditional statistical methods do not control.

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