Chapter Longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting Covid-19 mortality using joint models

In survival analysis, time-varying covariates are endogenous when their measurements are directly related to the event status and incomplete information occur at random points during the follow-up. Consequently, the time-dependent Cox model leads to biased estimates. Joint models (JM) allow to corre...

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Auteurs principaux: Ferrante, Pasquale, DI MASO, MATTEO, Ferraroni, Monica, Delbue, Serena, Ambrogi, Federico
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author Ferrante, Pasquale
DI MASO, MATTEO
Ferraroni, Monica
Delbue, Serena
Ambrogi, Federico
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DI MASO, MATTEO
Delbue, Serena
Ferrante, Pasquale
Ferraroni, Monica
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DI MASO, MATTEO
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Ambrogi, Federico
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description In survival analysis, time-varying covariates are endogenous when their measurements are directly related to the event status and incomplete information occur at random points during the follow-up. Consequently, the time-dependent Cox model leads to biased estimates. Joint models (JM) allow to correctly estimate these associations combining a survival and longitudinal sub-models by means of a shared parameter (i.e., random effects of the longitudinal sub-model are inserted in the survival one). This study aims at showing the use of JM to evaluate the association between a set of inflammatory biomarkers and Covid-19 mortality. During Covid-19 pandemic, physicians at Istituto Clinico di Città Studi in Milan collected biomarkers (endogenous time-varying covariates) to understand what might be used as prognostic factors for mortality. Furthermore, in the first epidemic outbreak, physicians did not have standard clinical protocols for management of Covid-19 disease and measurements of biomarkers were highly incomplete especially at the baseline. Between February and March 2020, a total of 403 COVID-19 patients were admitted. Baseline characteristics included sex and age, whereas biomarkers measurements, during hospital stay, included log-ferritin, log-lymphocytes, log-neutrophil granulocytes, log-C-reactive protein, glucose and LDH. A Bayesian approach using Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm were used for fitting JM. Independent and non-informative priors for the fixed effects (age and sex) and for shared parameters were used. Hazard ratios (HR) from a (biased) time-dependent Cox and joint models for log-ferritin levels were 2.10 (1.67-2.64) and 1.73 (1.38-2.20), respectively. In multivariable JM, doubling of biomarker levels resulted in a significantly increase of mortality risk for log-neutrophil granulocytes, HR=1.78 (1.16-2.69); for log-C-reactive protein, HR=1.44 (1.13-1.83); and for LDH, HR=1.28 (1.09-1.49). Increasing of 100 mg/dl of glucose resulted in a HR=2.44 (1.28-4.26). Age, however, showed the strongest effect with mortality risk starting to rise from 60 years.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-826332022-06-02T04:14:25Z Chapter Longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting Covid-19 mortality using joint models Ferrante, Pasquale DI MASO, MATTEO Ferraroni, Monica Delbue, Serena Ambrogi, Federico Endogenous time-varying covariates Time-dependent Cox model Joint models Inflammatory biomarkers Covid-19 mortality In survival analysis, time-varying covariates are endogenous when their measurements are directly related to the event status and incomplete information occur at random points during the follow-up. Consequently, the time-dependent Cox model leads to biased estimates. Joint models (JM) allow to correctly estimate these associations combining a survival and longitudinal sub-models by means of a shared parameter (i.e., random effects of the longitudinal sub-model are inserted in the survival one). This study aims at showing the use of JM to evaluate the association between a set of inflammatory biomarkers and Covid-19 mortality. During Covid-19 pandemic, physicians at Istituto Clinico di Città Studi in Milan collected biomarkers (endogenous time-varying covariates) to understand what might be used as prognostic factors for mortality. Furthermore, in the first epidemic outbreak, physicians did not have standard clinical protocols for management of Covid-19 disease and measurements of biomarkers were highly incomplete especially at the baseline. Between February and March 2020, a total of 403 COVID-19 patients were admitted. Baseline characteristics included sex and age, whereas biomarkers measurements, during hospital stay, included log-ferritin, log-lymphocytes, log-neutrophil granulocytes, log-C-reactive protein, glucose and LDH. A Bayesian approach using Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm were used for fitting JM. Independent and non-informative priors for the fixed effects (age and sex) and for shared parameters were used. Hazard ratios (HR) from a (biased) time-dependent Cox and joint models for log-ferritin levels were 2.10 (1.67-2.64) and 1.73 (1.38-2.20), respectively. In multivariable JM, doubling of biomarker levels resulted in a significantly increase of mortality risk for log-neutrophil granulocytes, HR=1.78 (1.16-2.69); for log-C-reactive protein, HR=1.44 (1.13-1.83); and for LDH, HR=1.28 (1.09-1.49). Increasing of 100 mg/dl of glucose resulted in a HR=2.44 (1.28-4.26). Age, however, showed the strongest effect with mortality risk starting to rise from 60 years. 2022-06-02T04:14:24Z 2022-06-02T04:14:24Z 2022-06-01T12:20:40Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855184618_547 2704-5846 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56362 9788855184618 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82633 eng Proceedings e report open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56362/1/26254.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.36 10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.36 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855184618 6 Florence open access
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Time-dependent Cox model
Joint models
Inflammatory biomarkers
Covid-19 mortality
Ferrante, Pasquale
DI MASO, MATTEO
Ferraroni, Monica
Delbue, Serena
Ambrogi, Federico
Chapter Longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting Covid-19 mortality using joint models
title Chapter Longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting Covid-19 mortality using joint models
title_full Chapter Longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting Covid-19 mortality using joint models
title_fullStr Chapter Longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting Covid-19 mortality using joint models
title_full_unstemmed Chapter Longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting Covid-19 mortality using joint models
title_short Chapter Longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting Covid-19 mortality using joint models
title_sort chapter longitudinal profile of a set of biomarkers in predicting covid 19 mortality using joint models
topic Endogenous time-varying covariates
Time-dependent Cox model
Joint models
Inflammatory biomarkers
Covid-19 mortality
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Time-dependent Cox model
Joint models
Inflammatory biomarkers
Covid-19 mortality
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