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This study introduces a new statistical method for analyzing illness and death, especially when exact illness timing is unknown. The approach accurately predicts illness probability and identifies key risk factors, outperforming existing models.

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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Survival Analysis

Background:

  • Disease onset is often interval-censored in population studies due to scheduled visits.
  • Semi-competing risks of death complicate accurate illness timing.
  • Existing illness-death models have limitations in handling high-dimensional covariates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a regularized estimation procedure for illness-death models with interval-censored diagnoses.
  • To enable variable selection in the presence of high-dimensional predictors.
  • To improve prediction of illness probability and identification of risk factors.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a proximal gradient hybrid algorithm maximizing regularized likelihood with an elastic-net penalty.
  • Simultaneously estimated regression parameters for three transitions under proportional transition intensities.
  • Implemented the algorithm in the R package HIDeM for variable selection and parameter estimation.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method demonstrated high performance in predicting illness probability.
  • Accurate selection of transition-specific risk factors was observed across simulation scenarios.
  • The method outperformed cause-specific competing risk models that ignored interval-censoring.

Conclusions:

  • The regularized illness-death model effectively handles interval-censored data and high-dimensional predictors.
  • The HIDeM package provides a robust tool for analyzing complex survival data.
  • Applied to the Three-City cohort, the method identified significant predictors of dementia onset.