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Standardized mortality risk ratios ranged from 1.59 for the full categorization to 1.66 for the dichotomized categorization; RR c values ranged from 1.14 under the full categorization to 1.09 under the dichotomized categorization.
This process yielded four categorizations of the comorbidity index; the full categorization plus three orders of collapsed categorization (eg, Table 1).
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Effect measure modification (modification of the RR) equaled 0.43 under full categorization, indicating that the RR associating age and mortality in the highest comorbidity stratum was 57% lower than the corresponding RR in the no-comorbidity stratum.
In all three scenarios we demonstrate the impact of collapsing upper categories of the comorbidity index on the inferences obtained under full categorization.
Under full categorization, an investigator would conclude that there was substantial confounding by comorbidity, and would choose to retain it as an adjustment or stratification variable.
This value might lead an investigator to conclude that older age and comorbidity had interacted to increase mortality risk by four cases per 100 persons over the follow-up period – a measure five-fold lower in magnitude and of opposite sign to that obtained under full categorization.
The full and collapsed categorizations were applied to analyses of (1) the association between comorbidity and all-cause mortality, wherein comorbidity was the exposure; (2) the association between older age and all-cause mortality, wherein comorbidity was a candidate confounder or effect modifier.
The analysis was based on a consensus categorization using the full group of six scorers: an item was scored 1 on a dichotomy if at least five out of six raters agreed on categorizing it as T or F respectively; if there was a 4-2 or 3-3 disagreementhethe item was scored.5, and 0 otherwise.
Gene annotations, raw expression data, statistical analysis, mean differentials, mean estimates, and gene categorization for the full genome are provided in Additional files 2, 3 and 4: Table S1, and have been deposited with ArrayExpress following the MIAME conventions [ 79], as accession E-MEXP-3525 E-MEXP-3525 E-MEXP-3525
Among many systems, the CAST index stands out with its simple hierarchical structure including the full spectrum of the disease, the categorization of the caries process according to its progression and a modern approach to filled teeth due to their inclusion in the category of sound teeth.
A lot of times labels can be limiting, failing to describe the full scope of a complex work, but King's self-imposed categorization of his non-fiction films are pretty accurate.
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