Case/control Studies with Follow-up: Constructing the Source Population to Estimate Effects of Risk Factors on Development, Disease, and Survival

Overview

Journal Clin Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2012 Nov 22

PMID 23169939

Citations 8

Authors

Halvor Sommerfelt

Hans Steinsland

Lize van der Merwe

William C Blackwelder

Dilruba Nasrin

Tamer H Farag

Karen L Kotloff

Myron M Levine

Hakon K Gjessing

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Abstract

If individuals in a case/control study are subsequently observed as a cohort of cases and a cohort of controls, weighted regression analyses can be used to estimate the association between the exposures initially recorded and events occurring during the follow-up of the 2 cohorts. Such analyses can be conceptualized as being undertaken on a reconstructed source population from which cases and controls stem. To simulate this population, the cohort of cases is added to the cohort of controls expanded with the reciprocal of the case disease incidence odds (the sampling weight) to include all individuals in the source population who did not develop the case disease. We use a simulated dataset to illustrate how weighted generalized linear model regression can be used to estimate the association between an exposure captured during the case/control study component and an outcome that occurs during follow-up.

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