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de Ruiter SC, Schmidt AF, Grobbee DE, den Ruijter HM, Peters SAE. Sex-specific Mendelian randomisation to assess the causality of sex differences in the effects of risk factors and treatment: spotlight on hypertension. J Hum Hypertens 2023; 37:602-608. [PMID: 37024639 PMCID: PMC10403357 DOI: 10.1038/s41371-023-00821-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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Hypertension is a key modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Several observational studies have found a stronger association of blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk in women compared to men. Since observational studies can be affected by sex-specific residual confounding and reverse causation, it remains unclear whether these differences reflect actual differential effects. Other study designs are needed to uncover the causality of sex differences in the strength of risk factor and treatment effects. Mendelian randomisation (MR) uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to provide evidence about putative causal relations between risk factors and outcomes. By exploiting the random allocation of genes at gamete forming, MR is unaffected by confounding and results in more reliable causal effect estimates. In this review, we discuss why and how sex-specific MR and cis-MR could be used to study sex differences in risk factor and drug target effects. Sex-specific MR can be helpful to strengthen causal inferences in the field of sex differences, where it is often challenging to distinguish nature from nurture. The challenge of sex-specific (drug target) MR lays in leveraging robust genetic instruments from sex-specific GWAS studies which are not commonly available. Knowledge on sex-specific causal effects of hypertension, or other risk factors, could improve clinical practice and health policies by tailoring interventions based on personalised risk. Drug target MR can help to determine the anticipated on-target effects of a drug compound and to identify targets to pursue in drug development.
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- Sophie C de Ruiter
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health, University College London, London, UK
- UCL British Heart Foundation Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
- The George Institute for Global Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Abdelwahab M, Marques S, Huang A, De Moraes TP, Previdelli I, Cruz JAW, Al-Sayed AA, Capasso R. Value of Surgical and Nonsurgical Treatment for Sleep Apnea: A Closer Look at Healthcare Utilization. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2023; 168:1228-1237. [PMID: 36794772 DOI: 10.1002/ohn.175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2022] [Revised: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine how surgery, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), and no treatment impact healthcare utilization in patients who have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective cohort study of patients between the ages of 18 and 65 that were diagnosed with OSA (9th International Classification of Diseases) from January 2007 to December 2015. Data were collected over 2 years, and prediction models were generated to evaluate trends over time. SETTING A population-based study using real-world data and insurance databases. METHODS A total of 4,978,649 participants were identified, all with at least 25 months of continuous enrollment. Patients with previous soft tissue procedures not approved for OSA (nasal surgery), or without continuous insurance coverage were excluded. A total of 18,050 patients underwent surgery, 1,054,578 were untreated, and 799,370 received CPAP. IBM Marketscan Research database was utilized to describe patient-specific clinical utilization, and expenditures, across outpatient, and inpatient services, and medication prescriptions. RESULTS When the cost of the intervention was eliminated in the 2-year follow-up, the monthly payments of group 1 (surgery) were significantly less than group 3 (CPAP) in overall, inpatient, outpatient, and pharmaceutical payments (p < .001). The surgery group was associated with less cumulative payments compared to the other 2 groups when the cost of the intervention (CPAP or surgery) was eliminated in all comorbidities and age groups. CONCLUSION Treating OSA with surgery can lessen overall healthcare utilization compared to no treatment and CPAP.
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- Mohamed Abdelwahab
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Sleep Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.,Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Sleep Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Sleep Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Sleep Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Graduate Program in Life Sciences, School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Department of Biostatistics, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Brazil
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- Department of Postgraduate Program in Adminstration, School of Business, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Sleep Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.,Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Sleep Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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Insights into the genetic basis of human disease are helping to address some of the key challenges in new drug development including the very high rates of failure. Here we review the recent history of an emerging, genomics-assisted approach to pharmaceutical research and development, and its relationship to Mendelian randomization (MR), a well-established analytical approach to causal inference. We demonstrate how human genomic data linked to pharmaceutically relevant phenotypes can be used for (1) drug target identification (mapping relevant drug targets to diseases), (2) drug target validation (inferring the likely effects of drug target perturbation), (3) evaluation of the effectiveness and specificity of compound-target engagement (inferring the extent to which the effects of a compound are exclusive to the target and distinguishing between on-target and off-target compound effects), and (4) the selection of end points in clinical trials (the diseases or conditions to be evaluated as trial outcomes). We show how genomics can help identify indication expansion opportunities for licensed drugs and repurposing of compounds developed to clinical phase that proved safe but ineffective for the original intended indication. We outline statistical and biological considerations in using MR for drug target validation (drug target MR) and discuss the obstacles and challenges for scaled applications of these genomics-based approaches.
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- Amand F Schmidt
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
- UCL British Heart Foundation Research Accelerator, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
- UCL British Heart Foundation Research Accelerator, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
- Health Data Research UK, London NW1 2BE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
- UCL British Heart Foundation Research Accelerator, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Health Data Research UK, London NW1 2BE, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY The insights that real-world data (RWD) can provide, beyond what can be learned within the traditional clinical trial setting, have gained enormous traction in recent years. RWD, which are increasingly available and accessible, can further our understanding of disease, disease progression, and safety and effectiveness of treatments with the speed and accuracy required by the health care environment and patients today. Over the decades since RWD were first recognized, innovation has evolved to take real-world research beyond finding ways to identify, store, and analyze large volumes of data. The research community has developed strong methods to address challenges of using RWD and as a result has increased the acceptance of RWD in research, practice, and policy. Historic concerns about RWD relate to data quality, privacy, and transparency; however, new tools, methods, and approaches mitigate these challenges and expand the utility of RWD to new applications. Specific guidelines for RWD use have been developed and published by numerous groups, including regulatory authorities. These and other efforts have shown that the more RWD are used and understood and the more the tools for handling it are refined, the more useful it will be.
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- Robert Zura
- Department of Orthopaedics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
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Pericleous P. Pragmatic trials: ignoring a mediator and adjusting for confounding. BMC Res Notes 2019; 12:156. [PMID: 30894221 PMCID: PMC6425675 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4188-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2018] [Accepted: 03/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES In pragmatic trials, the new treatment is compared with usual care (heterogeneous control arm) that makes the comparison of the new treatment with each treatment within the control arm more difficult. The usual assumption is that we can fully capture the relations between different quantities. In this paper we use simulation to assess the performance of statistical methods that adjust for confounding when the assumed relations are not true. The true relations contain a mediator and heterogeneity with or without confounding, but the assumption is that there is no mediator and that confounding and heterogeneity are fully captured. The statistical methods that are compared include multivariable logistic regression, propensity score, disease risk score, inverse probability weighting, doubly robust inverse probability weighting and standardisation. RESULTS The misconception that there is no mediator can cause to misleading comparative effectiveness of individual treatments when a method that estimates the conditional causal effect is used. Using a method that estimates the marginal causal effect is a better approach, but not for all scenarios.
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Makady A, van Veelen A, Jonsson P, Moseley O, D’Andon A, de Boer A, Hillege H, Klungel O, Goettsch W. Using Real-World Data in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Practice: A Comparative Study of Five HTA Agencies. PHARMACOECONOMICS 2018; 36:359-368. [PMID: 29214389 PMCID: PMC5834594 DOI: 10.1007/s40273-017-0596-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Reimbursement decisions are conventionally based on evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCTs), which often have high internal validity but low external validity. Real-world data (RWD) may provide complimentary evidence for relative effectiveness assessments (REAs) and cost-effectiveness assessments (CEAs). This study examines whether RWD is incorporated in health technology assessment (HTA) of melanoma drugs by European HTA agencies, as well as differences in RWD use between agencies and across time. METHODS HTA reports published between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2016 were retrieved from websites of agencies representing five jurisdictions: England [National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)], Scotland [Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC)], France [Haute Autorité de santé (HAS)], Germany [Institute for Quality and Efficacy in Healthcare (IQWiG)] and The Netherlands [Zorginstituut Nederland (ZIN)]. A standardized data extraction form was used to extract information on RWD inclusion for both REAs and CEAs. RESULTS Overall, 52 reports were retrieved, all of which contained REAs; CEAs were present in 25 of the reports. RWD was included in 28 of the 52 REAs (54%), mainly to estimate melanoma prevalence, and in 22 of the 25 (88%) CEAs, mainly to extrapolate long-term effectiveness and/or identify drug-related costs. Differences emerged between agencies regarding RWD use in REAs; the ZIN and IQWiG cited RWD for evidence on prevalence, whereas the NICE, SMC and HAS additionally cited RWD use for drug effectiveness. No visible trend for RWD use in REAs and CEAs over time was observed. CONCLUSION In general, RWD inclusion was higher in CEAs than REAs, and was mostly used to estimate melanoma prevalence in REAs or to predict long-term effectiveness in CEAs. Differences emerged between agencies' use of RWD; however, no visible trends for RWD use over time were observed.
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- Amr Makady
- The National Healthcare Institute (ZIN), Eekholt 4, 1112 XH Diemen, The Netherlands
- Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Level 1A, City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT UK
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- The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC), Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), Delta House (8th floor), 50 West Nile Street, Glasgow, G1 2NP Scotland, UK
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- La Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), 5 Avenue du Stade de France, Saint-Denis La Plaine Cedex, 93218 Paris, France
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- Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Broerstraat 5, 9712 CP Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- The National Healthcare Institute (ZIN), Eekholt 4, 1112 XH Diemen, The Netherlands
- Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Schmidt AF, Hingorani AD, Jefferis BJ, White J, Groenwold R, Dudbridge F. Comparison of variance estimators for meta-analysis of instrumental variable estimates. Int J Epidemiol 2018; 45:1975-1986. [PMID: 27591262 PMCID: PMC5654757 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Background: Mendelian randomization studies perform instrumental variable (IV) analysis using genetic IVs. Results of individual Mendelian randomization studies can be pooled through meta-analysis. We explored how different variance estimators influence the meta-analysed IV estimate. Methods: Two versions of the delta method (IV before or after pooling), four bootstrap estimators, a jack-knife estimator and a heteroscedasticity-consistent (HC) variance estimator were compared using simulation. Two types of meta-analyses were compared, a two-stage meta-analysis pooling results, and a one-stage meta-analysis pooling datasets. Results: Using a two-stage meta-analysis, coverage of the point estimate using bootstrapped estimators deviated from nominal levels at weak instrument settings and/or outcome probabilities ≤ 0.10. The jack-knife estimator was the least biased resampling method, the HC estimator often failed at outcome probabilities ≤ 0.50 and overall the delta method estimators were the least biased. In the presence of between-study heterogeneity, the delta method before meta-analysis performed best. Using a one-stage meta-analysis all methods performed equally well and better than two-stage meta-analysis of greater or equal size. Conclusions: In the presence of between-study heterogeneity, two-stage meta-analyses should preferentially use the delta method before meta-analysis. Weak instrument bias can be reduced by performing a one-stage meta-analysis.
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- Department of Primary Care and Population Health
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Kahlert J, Gribsholt SB, Gammelager H, Dekkers OM, Luta G. Control of confounding in the analysis phase - an overview for clinicians. Clin Epidemiol 2017; 9:195-204. [PMID: 28408854 PMCID: PMC5384727 DOI: 10.2147/clep.s129886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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In observational studies, control of confounding can be done in the design and analysis phases. Using examples from large health care database studies, this article provides the clinicians with an overview of standard methods in the analysis phase, such as stratification, standardization, multivariable regression analysis and propensity score (PS) methods, together with the more advanced high-dimensional propensity score (HD-PS) method. We describe the progression from simple stratification confined to the inclusion of a few potential confounders to complex modeling procedures such as the HD-PS approach by which hundreds of potential confounders are extracted from large health care databases. Stratification and standardization assist in the understanding of the data at a detailed level, while accounting for potential confounders. Incorporating several potential confounders in the analysis typically implies the choice between multivariable analysis and PS methods. Although PS methods have gained remarkable popularity in recent years, there is an ongoing discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of PS methods as compared to those of multivariable analysis. Furthermore, the HD-PS method, despite its generous inclusion of potential confounders, is also associated with potential pitfalls. All methods are dependent on the assumption of no unknown, unmeasured and residual confounding and suffer from the difficulty of identifying true confounders. Even in large health care databases, insufficient or poor data may contribute to these challenges. The trend in data collection is to compile more fine-grained data on lifestyle and severity of diseases, based on self-reporting and modern technologies. This will surely improve our ability to incorporate relevant confounders or their proxies. However, despite a remarkable development of methods that account for confounding and new data opportunities, confounding will remain a serious issue. Considering the advantages and disadvantages of different methods, we emphasize the importance of the clinical input and of the interplay between clinicians and analysts to ensure a proper analysis.
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- Johnny Kahlert
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine
- Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology
- Department of Medicine, Section Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine
- Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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Schmidt AF, Groenwold R. Adjusting for bias in unblinded randomized controlled trials. Stat Methods Med Res 2016; 27:2413-2427. [PMID: 27932664 DOI: 10.1177/0962280216680652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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It may not always be possible to blind participants of a randomized controlled trial for treatment allocation. As a result, estimators of the actual treatment effect may be biased. In this paper, we will extend a novel method, originally introduced in genetic research, for instrumental variable meta-analysis, adjusting for bias due to unblinding of trial participants. Using simulation studies, this novel method, "Egger Correction for non-Adherence", is introduced and compared to the performance of the "intention-to-treat," "as-treated," and conventional "instrumental variable" estimators. Scenarios considered (time-varying) non-adherence, confounding, and between-study heterogeneity. The effect of treatment on a binary endpoint was quantified by means of a risk difference. In all scenarios with unblinded treatment allocation, the Egger Correction for non-Adherence method was the least biased estimator. However, unless the variation in adherence was relatively large, precision was lacking, and power did not surpass 0.50. As a comparison, in a meta-analysis of blinded randomized controlled trials, power of the conventional IV estimator was 1.00 versus at most 0.14 for the Egger Correction for non-Adherence estimator. Due to this lack of precision and power, we suggest to use this method mainly as a sensitivity analysis.
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- A F Schmidt
- 1 Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health, University College London, London, UK
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- 2 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Hajage D, De Rycke Y, Chauvet G, Tubach F. Estimation of conditional and marginal odds ratios using the prognostic score. Stat Med 2016; 36:687-716. [PMID: 27859557 DOI: 10.1002/sim.7170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2016] [Revised: 10/14/2016] [Accepted: 10/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Introduced by Hansen in 2008, the prognostic score (PGS) has been presented as 'the prognostic analogue of the propensity score' (PPS). PPS-based methods are intended to estimate marginal effects. Most previous studies evaluated the performance of existing PGS-based methods (adjustment, stratification and matching using the PGS) in situations in which the theoretical conditional and marginal effects are equal (i.e., collapsible situations). To support the use of PGS framework as an alternative to the PPS framework, applied researchers must have reliable information about the type of treatment effect estimated by each method. We propose four new PGS-based methods, each developed to estimate a specific type of treatment effect. We evaluated the ability of existing and new PGS-based methods to estimate the conditional treatment effect (CTE), the (marginal) average treatment effect on the whole population (ATE), and the (marginal) average treatment effect on the treated population (ATT), when the odds ratio (a non-collapsible estimator) is the measure of interest. The performance of PGS-based methods was assessed by Monte Carlo simulations and compared with PPS-based methods and multivariate regression analysis. Existing PGS-based methods did not allow for estimating the ATE and showed unacceptable performance when the proportion of exposed subjects was large. When estimating marginal effects, PPS-based methods were too conservative, whereas the new PGS-based methods performed better with low prevalence of exposure, and had coverages closer to the nominal value. When estimating CTE, the new PGS-based methods performed as well as traditional multivariate regression. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- David Hajage
- APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Département de Biostatistiques, Santé publique et Information médicale, Paris, F-75013, France.,APHP, Centre de Pharmacoépidémiologie (Cephepi), Paris, F-75013, France.,Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR 1123 ECEVE, Paris, F-75010, France.,INSERM, UMR 1123 ECEVE, Paris, F-75018, France
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- APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Département de Biostatistiques, Santé publique et Information médicale, Paris, F-75013, France.,APHP, Centre de Pharmacoépidémiologie (Cephepi), Paris, F-75013, France.,Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR 1123 ECEVE, Paris, F-75010, France.,INSERM, UMR 1123 ECEVE, Paris, F-75018, France
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- Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de IAnalyse de l'Information (ENSAI), Bruz, F-35170, France.,IRMAR, UMR CNRS 6625, Rennes, France
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- APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Département de Biostatistiques, Santé publique et Information médicale, Paris, F-75013, France.,APHP, Centre de Pharmacoépidémiologie (Cephepi), Paris, F-75013, France.,Université Pierre et Marie Curie Ű Paris 6, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France.,INSERM, UMR 1123 ECEVE, Paris, F-75018, France
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Singer DRJ, Zaïr ZM. Clinical Perspectives on Targeting Therapies for Personalized Medicine. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2015; 102:79-114. [PMID: 26827603 PMCID: PMC7102676 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2015.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Expected benefits from new technology include more efficient patient selection for clinical trials, more cost-effective treatment pathways for patients and health services and a more profitable accelerated approach for drug developers. Regulatory authorities expect the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries to accelerate their development of companion diagnostics and companion therapeutics toward the goal of safer and more effective personalized medicine, and expect health services to fund and prescribers to adopt these new therapeutic technologies. This review discusses the importance of a range of new approaches to developing new and reprofiled medicines to treat common and serious diseases, and rare diseases: new network pharmacology approaches, adaptive trial designs with enriched populations more likely to respond safely to treatment, as assessed by companion diagnostics for response and toxicity risk and use of “real world” data. Case studies are described of single and multiple protein drug targets in several important therapeutic areas. These case studies also illustrate the value and complexity of use of selective biomarkers of clinical response and risk of adverse drug effects, either singly or in combination.
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- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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