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Título: Predictors of follow-up and assessment of selection bias from dropouts using inverse probability weighting in a cohort of university graduates
Autores/as: Alonso, Alvaro
Seguí-Gómez, María
De Irala, Jokin
Sánchez-Villegas, Almudena 
Beunza, Juan José
Martínez-Gonzalez, Miguel Ángel
Clasificación UNESCO: 32 Ciencias médicas
3206 Ciencias de la nutrición
3212 Salud pública
Palabras clave: Attrition
Questionnaire
Hypertension
Validation
Health
Fecha de publicación: 2006
Publicación seriada: European Journal of Epidemiology 
Resumen: Dropouts in cohort studies can introduce selection bias. In this paper, we aimed (i) to assess predictors of retention in a cohort study (the SUN Project) where participants are followed-up through biennial mailed questionnaires, and (ii) to evaluate whether differential follow-up introduced selection bias in rate ratio (RR) estimates. The SUN Study recruited 9907 participants from December 1999 to January 2002. Among them, 8647 (87%) participants answered the 2-year follow-up questionnaire. The presence of missing information in key variables at baseline, being younger, smoker, a marital status different of married, being obese/overweight and a history of motor vehicle injury were associated with being lost to follow-up, while a self-reported history of cardiovascular disease predicted a higher retention proportion. To assess whether differential follow-up affected RR estimates, we studied the association between body mass index and the risk of hypertension, using inverse probability weighting (IPW) to adjust for confounding and selection bias. Obese individuals had a higher crude rate of hypertension compared with normoweight participants (RR = 6.4, 95% confidence interval (Cl): 3.9-10.5). Adjustment for confounding using IPW attenuated the risk of hypertension associated to obesity (RR = 2.4, 95% CI: 1.1-5.3). Additional adjustment for selection bias did not modify the estimations. In conclusion, we show that the follow-up through mailed questionnaires of a geographically disperse cohort in Spain is possible. Furthermore, we show that despite existing differences between retained or lost to follow-up participants this may not necessarily have an important impact on the RR estimates of hypertension associated to obesity.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/49087
ISSN: 0393-2990
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-006-9008-y
Fuente: European Journal of Epidemiology[ISSN 0393-2990],v. 21, p. 351-358 (Mayo 2006)
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