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Girguis MS, Li L, Lurmann F, Wu J, Breton C, Gilliland F, Stram D, Habre R. Exposure Measurement Error in Air Pollution Studies: The Impact of Shared, Multiplicative Measurement Error on Epidemiological Health Risk Estimates. AIR QUALITY, ATMOSPHERE, & HEALTH 2020; 13:631-643. [PMID: 32601528 PMCID: PMC7323995 DOI: 10.1007/s11869-020-00826-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Spatiotemporal air pollution models are increasingly being used to estimate health effects in epidemiological studies. Although such exposure prediction models typically result in improved spatial and temporal resolution of air pollution predictions, they remain subject to shared measurement error, a type of measurement error common in spatiotemporal exposure models which occurs when measurement error is not independent of exposures. A fundamental challenge of exposure measurement error in air pollution assessment is the strong correlation and sometimes identical (shared) error of exposure estimates across geographic space and time. When exposure estimates with shared measurement error are used to estimate health risk in epidemiological analyses, complex errors are potentially introduced, resulting in biased epidemiological conclusions. We demonstrate the influence of using a three-stage spatiotemporal exposure prediction model and introduce formal methods of shared, multiplicative measurement error (SMME) correction of epidemiological health risk estimates. Using our three-stage, ensemble learning based nitrogen oxides (NOx) exposure prediction model, we quantified SMME. We conducted an epidemiological analysis of wheeze risk in relation to NOx exposure among school-aged children. To demonstrate the incremental influence of exposure modeling stage, we iteratively estimated the health risk using assigned exposure predictions from each stage of the NOx model. We then determined the impact of SMME on the variance of the health risk estimates under various scenarios. Depending on the stage of the spatiotemporal exposure model used, we found that wheeze odds ratio ranged from 1.16 to 1.28 for an interquartile range increase in NOx. With each additional stage of exposure modeling, the health effect estimate moved further away from the null (OR=1). When corrected for observed SMME, the health effects confidence intervals slightly lengthened, but our epidemiological conclusions were not altered. When the variance estimate was corrected for the potential "worst case scenario" of SMME, the standard error further increased, having a meaningful influence on epidemiological conclusions. Our framework can be expanded and used to understand the implications of using exposure predictions subject to shared measurement error in future health investigations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mariam S Girguis
- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Program in Public Health, Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Wu Y, Hoffman FO, Apostoaei AI, Kwon D, Thomas BA, Glass R, Zablotska LB. Methods to account for uncertainties in exposure assessment in studies of environmental exposures. Environ Health 2019; 18:31. [PMID: 30961632 PMCID: PMC6454753 DOI: 10.1186/s12940-019-0468-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Accurate exposure estimation in environmental epidemiological studies is crucial for health risk assessment. Failure to account for uncertainties in exposure estimation could lead to biased results in exposure-response analyses. Assessment of the effects of uncertainties in exposure estimation on risk estimates received a lot of attention in radiation epidemiology and in several studies of diet and air pollution. The objective of this narrative review is to examine the commonly used statistical approaches to account for exposure estimation errors in risk analyses and to suggest how each could be applied in environmental epidemiological studies. MAIN TEXT We review two main error types in estimating exposures in epidemiological studies: shared and unshared errors and their subtypes. We describe the four main statistical approaches to adjust for exposure estimation uncertainties (regression calibration, simulation-extrapolation, Monte Carlo maximum likelihood and Bayesian model averaging) along with examples to give readers better understanding of their advantages and limitations. We also explain the advantages of using a 2-dimensional Monte-Carlo (2DMC) simulation method to quantify the effect of uncertainties in exposure estimates using full-likelihood methods. For exposures that are estimated independently between subjects and are more likely to introduce unshared errors, regression calibration and SIMEX methods are able to adequately account for exposure uncertainties in risk analyses. When an uncalibrated measuring device is used or estimation parameters with uncertain mean values are applied to a group of people, shared errors could potentially be large. In this case, Monte Carlo maximum likelihood and Bayesian model averaging methods based on estimates of exposure from the 2DMC simulations would work well. The majority of reviewed studies show relatively moderate changes (within 100%) in risk estimates after accounting for uncertainties in exposure estimates, except for the two studies which doubled/tripled naïve estimates. CONCLUSIONS In this paper, we demonstrate various statistical methods to account for uncertain exposure estimates in risk analyses. The differences in the results of various adjustment methods could be due to various error structures in datasets and whether or not a proper statistical method was applied. Epidemiological studies of environmental exposures should include exposure-response analyses accounting for uncertainties in exposure estimates.
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- You Wu
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, 2nd floor, Box 0560, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
- Center for Design and Analysis, Amgen, Inc., 1 Amgen Center Dr., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 USA
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- Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis, Inc., 102 Donner Drive, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis, Inc., 102 Donner Drive, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, 1475 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, FL USA
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- Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis, Inc., 102 Donner Drive, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, 2nd floor, Box 0560, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, 2nd floor, Box 0560, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
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Gormley IC, Bai Y, Brennan L. Combining biomarker and self-reported dietary intake data: A review of the state of the art and an exposition of concepts. Stat Methods Med Res 2019; 29:617-635. [PMID: 30943855 DOI: 10.1177/0962280219837698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Classical approaches to assessing dietary intake are associated with measurement error. In an effort to address inherent measurement error in dietary self-reported data there is increased interest in the use of dietary biomarkers as objective measures of intake. Furthermore, there is a growing consensus of the need to combine dietary biomarker data with self-reported data. A review of state of the art techniques employed when combining biomarker and self-reported data is conducted. Two predominant methods, the calibration method and the method of triads, emerge as relevant techniques used when combining biomarker and self-reported data to account for measurement errors in dietary intake assessment. Both methods crucially assume measurement error independence. To expose and understand the performance of these methods in a range of realistic settings, their underpinning statistical concepts are unified and delineated, and thorough simulation studies are conducted. Results show that violation of the methods' assumptions negatively impacts resulting inference but that this impact is mitigated when the variation of the biomarker around the true intake is small. Thus there is much scope for the further development of biomarkers and models in tandem to achieve the ultimate goal of accurately assessing dietary intake.
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- Isobel Claire Gormley
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.,Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.,School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.,Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.,Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Padoan A, Basso D, Zambon CF, Prayer-Galetti T, Arrigoni G, Bozzato D, Moz S, Zattoni F, Bellocco R, Plebani M. MALDI-TOF peptidomic analysis of serum and post-prostatic massage urine specimens to identify prostate cancer biomarkers. Clin Proteomics 2018; 15:23. [PMID: 30065622 PMCID: PMC6060548 DOI: 10.1186/s12014-018-9199-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Background Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and prostate specific antigen-based parameters seem to have only a limited utility for the differential diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa). MALDI-TOF/MS peptidomic profiling could be a useful diagnostic tool for biomarker discovery, although reproducibility issues have limited its applicability until now. The current study aimed to evaluate a new MALDI-TOF/MS candidate biomarker. Methods Within- and between-subject variability of MALDI-TOF/MS-based peptidomic urine and serum analyses were evaluated in 20 and 15 healthy donors, respectively. Normalizations and approaches for accounting below limit of detection (LOD) values were utilized to enhance reproducibility, while Monte Carlo experiments were performed to verify whether measurement error can be dealt with LOD data. Post-prostatic massage urine and serum samples from 148 LUTS patients were analysed using MALDI-TOF/MS. Regression-calibration and simulation and extrapolation methods were used to derive the unbiased association between peptidomic features and PCa. Results Although the median normalized peptidomic variability was 24.9%, the within- and between-subject variability showed that median normalization, LOD adjustment, and log2 data transformation were the best combination in terms of reliability; in measurement error conditions, intraclass correlation coefficient was a reliable estimate when the LOD/2 was substituted for below LOD values. In the patients studied, 43 peptides were shared by the urine and serum, and several features were found to be associated with PCa. Only few serum features, however, show statistical significance after the multiple testing procedures were completed. Two serum fragmentation patterns corresponded to the complement C4-A. Conclusions MALDI-TOF/MS serum peptidome profiling was more efficacious with respect to post-prostatic massage urine analysis in discriminating PCa. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12014-018-9199-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Andrea Padoan
- 1Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
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- 1Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
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- 3Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- 2Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.,4Proteomic Center, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- 1Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
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- 1Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
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- 3Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- 5Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.,6Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- 1Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
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Parisi F, Rousian M, Huijgen NA, Koning AHJ, Willemsen SP, de Vries JHM, Cetin I, Steegers EAP, Steegers-Theunissen RPM. Periconceptional maternal 'high fish and olive oil, low meat' dietary pattern is associated with increased embryonic growth: The Rotterdam Periconceptional Cohort (Predict) Study. ULTRASOUND IN OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ULTRASOUND IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY 2017; 50:709-716. [PMID: 28078758 DOI: 10.1002/uog.17408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Revised: 01/02/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between periconceptional maternal dietary pattern and first-trimester embryonic growth. METHODS This was a prospective cohort study of 228 women with a singleton ongoing pregnancy, of which 135 were strictly dated spontaneous pregnancies and 93 were pregnancies achieved after in-vitro fertilization or intracytoplasmatic sperm injection (IVF/ICSI). All women underwent serial transvaginal three-dimensional ultrasound (3D-US) examinations from 6 + 0 to 13 + 0 weeks' gestation. Crown-rump length (CRL) and embryonic volume (EV) measurements were performed using a virtual reality system. Information on periconceptional maternal dietary intake was collected via food frequency questionnaires. Principal component analysis was performed to identify dietary patterns. Associations between dietary patterns and CRL and EV trajectories were investigated using linear mixed models adjusted for potential confounders. RESULTS A median of five (range, one to seven) 3D-US scans per pregnancy were performed. Of 1162 datasets, quality was sufficient to perform CRL measurements in 991 (85.3%) and EV measurements in 899 (77.4%). A dietary pattern comprising high intake of fish and olive oil and a very low intake of meat was identified as beneficial for embryonic growth. In strictly dated spontaneous pregnancies, strong adherence to the 'high fish and olive oil, low meat' dietary pattern was associated with a 1.9 mm (95% CI, 0.1-3.63 mm) increase in CRL (+14.6%) at 7 weeks and a 3.4 mm (95% CI, 0.2-7.81 mm) increase (+6.9%) at 11 weeks, whereas EV increased by 0.06 cm3 (95% CI, 0.01-0.13 cm3 ) (+20.4%) at 7 weeks and 1.43 cm3 (95% CI, 0.99-1.87 cm3 ) (+14.4%) at 11 weeks. No significant association was observed in the total study population or in the IVF/ICSI subgroup. CONCLUSION Periconceptional maternal adherence to a high fish and olive oil, low meat dietary pattern is positively associated with embryonic growth in spontaneously conceived pregnancies. Copyright © 2017 ISUOG. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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- F Parisi
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Fetal Research Giorgio Pardi, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Hospital Luigi Sacco, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Bennett DA, Landry D, Little J, Minelli C. Systematic review of statistical approaches to quantify, or correct for, measurement error in a continuous exposure in nutritional epidemiology. BMC Med Res Methodol 2017; 17:146. [PMID: 28927376 PMCID: PMC5606038 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-017-0421-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Several statistical approaches have been proposed to assess and correct for exposure measurement error. We aimed to provide a critical overview of the most common approaches used in nutritional epidemiology. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE, BIOSIS and CINAHL were searched for reports published in English up to May 2016 in order to ascertain studies that described methods aimed to quantify and/or correct for measurement error for a continuous exposure in nutritional epidemiology using a calibration study. RESULTS We identified 126 studies, 43 of which described statistical methods and 83 that applied any of these methods to a real dataset. The statistical approaches in the eligible studies were grouped into: a) approaches to quantify the relationship between different dietary assessment instruments and "true intake", which were mostly based on correlation analysis and the method of triads; b) approaches to adjust point and interval estimates of diet-disease associations for measurement error, mostly based on regression calibration analysis and its extensions. Two approaches (multiple imputation and moment reconstruction) were identified that can deal with differential measurement error. CONCLUSIONS For regression calibration, the most common approach to correct for measurement error used in nutritional epidemiology, it is crucial to ensure that its assumptions and requirements are fully met. Analyses that investigate the impact of departures from the classical measurement error model on regression calibration estimates can be helpful to researchers in interpreting their findings. With regard to the possible use of alternative methods when regression calibration is not appropriate, the choice of method should depend on the measurement error model assumed, the availability of suitable calibration study data and the potential for bias due to violation of the classical measurement error model assumptions. On the basis of this review, we provide some practical advice for the use of methods to assess and adjust for measurement error in nutritional epidemiology.
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- Derrick A. Bennett
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF UK
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- School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Population Health & Occupational Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Within-subject Pooling of Biological Samples to Reduce Exposure Misclassification in Biomarker-based Studies. Epidemiology 2017; 27:378-88. [PMID: 27035688 PMCID: PMC4820663 DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000000460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. For chemicals with high within-subject temporal variability, assessing exposure biomarkers in a spot biospecimen poorly estimates average levels over long periods. The objective is to characterize the ability of within-subject pooling of biospecimens to reduce bias due to exposure misclassification when within-subject variability in biomarker concentrations is high.
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Pottala JV, Djira GD, Espeland MA, Ye J, Larson MG, Harris WS. Structural equation modeling for analyzing erythrocyte fatty acids in Framingham. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2014; 2014:160520. [PMID: 24959197 PMCID: PMC4052884 DOI: 10.1155/2014/160520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2013] [Revised: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Research has shown that several types of erythrocyte fatty acids (i.e., omega-3, omega-6, and trans) are associated with risk for cardiovascular diseases. However, there are complex metabolic and dietary relations among fatty acids, which induce correlations that are typically ignored when using them as risk predictors. A latent variable approach could summarize these complex relations into a few latent variable scores for use in statistical models. Twenty-two red blood cell (RBC) fatty acids were measured in Framingham (N = 3196). The correlation matrix of the fatty acids was modeled using structural equation modeling; the model was tested for goodness-of-fit and gender invariance. Thirteen fatty acids were summarized by three latent variables, and gender invariance was rejected so separate models were developed for men and women. A score was developed for the polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) latent variable, which explained about 30% of the variance in the data. The PUFA score included loadings in opposing directions among three omega-3 and three omega-6 fatty acids, and incorporated the biosynthetic and dietary relations among them. Whether the PUFA factor score can improve the performance of risk prediction in cardiovascular diseases remains to be tested.
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- James V. Pottala
- Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc., Richmond, VA 23219, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA
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- Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02218, USA
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
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- Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc., Richmond, VA 23219, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, USA
- OmegaQuant Analytics, Sioux Falls, SD 57107, USA
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Batistatou E, McNamee R. Performance of bias-correction methods for exposure measurement error using repeated measurements with and without missing data. Stat Med 2012; 31:3467-80. [DOI: 10.1002/sim.5422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2010] [Accepted: 03/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Evridiki Batistatou
- Biostatistics, Health Sciences-Methodology Group, Community based Medicine; University of Manchester; U.K
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- Biostatistics, Health Sciences-Methodology Group, Community based Medicine; University of Manchester; U.K
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Burrows T, Berthon B, Garg ML, Collins CE. A comparative validation of a child food frequency questionnaire using red blood cell membrane fatty acids. Eur J Clin Nutr 2012; 66:825-9. [PMID: 22378224 DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2012.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES There are limited validated tools available for the assessment of dietary intake in pediatric populations. This report describes a comparative validation study of selected fatty acid intakes in children assessed by food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), compared with erythrocyte membrane fatty acids. SUBJECTS/METHODS Overall, 46 overweight and 47 healthy-weight children aged 5-12 years (mean±SD, 9.1±1.3years, body mass index 20.5±4.0) were recruited; dietary fatty acid intakes assessed by parent report using a 135-item semi-quantitative FFQ, were compared with selected child erythrocyte membrane fatty acids assessed from fasting samples using gas chromatography. Spearman's rank correlation coefficients were calculated between fatty acid intake estimates (% of energy) and erythrocyte membrane concentrations (%mol/mol). RESULTS Significant correlations were found between dietary and erythrocyte eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) concentration (r=0.24, P<0.05) with a statistical trend for total omega three (∑n-3) fatty acids (r=0.22, P=0.06) and linoleic acid (r=0.32, P=0.07) in the healthy-weight children only. CONCLUSION Parental report of selected child fatty acid intakes using an FFQ can be used to provide an estimate of child intake of EPA, but further work is required to quantify this relationship for other fatty acids and in other populations.
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- T Burrows
- School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
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