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  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Survival Analysis

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  • Environmental exposures are linked to health outcomes, but risk factor data is often incomplete.
  • Accurate assessment of environmental risk requires accounting for unmeasured confounding variables.
  • Survival models are crucial for analyzing time-to-event data in cohort studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate statistical methods for indirectly adjusting hazard ratios in survival models.
  • To account for missing risk factors in the analysis of environmental exposures and health endpoints.
  • To improve the accuracy of epidemiological studies by addressing unmeasured confounding.

Main Methods:

  • Applied a partitioned regression approach to time-to-event survival analyses of cohort data.
  • Utilized ancillary data for correlations between observed and missing risk factors.
  • Validated the method with simulations and applied it to ambient fine particulate matter and ischemic heart disease mortality in a Canadian cohort.

Main Results:

  • Indirect adjustment for smoking and obesity amplified the association between fine particulate matter and ischemic heart disease mortality by 3%-123%.
  • Simulations indicated the method produced small relative bias (<40%) across various cohort designs.
  • Demonstrated the impact of unmeasured confounders on environmental exposure-health outcome associations.

Conclusions:

  • The developed statistical method effectively adjusts for multiple missing risk factors simultaneously.
  • The approach accounts for complex associations between observed/missing risk factors and health outcomes.
  • This methodology enhances the reliability of survival analyses in environmental epidemiology.