Abstract Number:
2101
Submission Type:
Contributed Abstract
Contributed Abstract Type:
Paper
Participants:
Saurabh Bhandari (1), Michael Daniels (1), Maria Josefsson (2), Donald Lloyd-Jones (3), Juned Siddique (3)
Institutions:
(1) University of Florida, N/A, (2) Umea University, N/A, (3) Northwestern University, N/A
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First Author:
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Abstract Text:
Causal mediation analysis is an important tool for investigating the causal effects of medications on disease-related risk factors, and on time-to-death (or disease progression) through these risk factors. However, such analyses are complicated by the longitudinal structure of the risk factors and the time-varying confounders. We develop a causal mediation approach, using (semi-parametric) Bayesian Additive Regression Tree (BART) models for the longitudinal and survival data. Our framework allows for time-varying exposures, confounders, and mediators, all of which can either be continuous or binary. We also quantify direct and indirect causal effects in the presence of a competing event. Motivated by data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort study, we use our methods to assess how medications, prescribed to target the cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, affect the time-to-CVD death.
Keywords:
causal mediation|longitudinal and survival data|semi-parametric|BART| cardiovascular|
Sponsors:
Biometrics Section
Tracks:
Semiparametric Modeling
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