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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 177, 期 1, 页码 84-92出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws209
关键词
biomarkers; cadmium; environmental epidemiology; lead; measurement error; reliability
资金
- Intramural Research Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Long-Range Research Initiative of the American Chemistry Council
- Congress of Epidemiology
Utilizing multiple biomarkers is increasingly common in epidemiology. However, the combined impact of correlated exposure measurement error, unmeasured confounding, interaction, and limits of detection (LODs) on inference for multiple biomarkers is unknown. We conducted data-driven simulations evaluating bias from correlated measurement error with varying reliability coefficients (R), odds ratios (ORs), levels of correlation between exposures and error, LODs, and interactions. Blood cadmium and lead levels in relation to anovulation served as the motivating example, based on findings from the BioCycle Study (20052007). For most scenarios, main-effect estimates for cadmium and lead with increasing levels of positively correlated measurement error created increasing downward or upward bias for OR 1.00 and OR 1.00, respectively, that was also a function of effect size. Some scenarios showed bias for cadmium away from the null. Results subject to LODs were similar. Bias for main and interaction effects ranged from 130 to 36 and from 144 to 84, respectively. A closed-form continuous outcome case solution provides a useful tool for estimating the bias in logistic regression. Investigators should consider how measurement error and LODs may bias findings when examining biomarkers measured in the same medium, prepared with the same process, or analyzed using the same method.
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