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SUBMITTER: Chang CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3321062 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chang Chung-Chou H CC Zhao Yongyun Y Lee Ching-Wen CW Ganguli Mary M
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 20121001 4
If smoking is a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD) but a smoker dies of another cause before developing or manifesting AD, smoking-related mortality may mask the relationship between smoking and AD. This phenomenon, referred to as competing risk, complicates efforts to model the effect of smoking on AD. Typical survival regression models assume that censorship from analysis is unrelated to an individual's probability for developing AD (ie, censoring is noninformative). However, if individual ...[more]