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Bayesian hierarchical dose-response meta-analysis of epidemiological studies: Modeling and target population prediction methods.
Allen, Bruce; Shao, Kan; Hobbie, Kevin; Mendez, William; Lee, Janice S; Cote, Ila; Druwe, Ingrid; Gift, Jeffrey S; Davis, J Allen.
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  • Allen B; Independent Consultant, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  • Shao K; Department of Environmental Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
  • Hobbie K; ICF, 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031-1207, USA.
  • Mendez W; ICF, 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031-1207, USA.
  • Lee JS; Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
  • Cote I; Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
  • Druwe I; Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
  • Gift JS; Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
  • Davis JA; Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: davis.allen@epa.gov.
Environ Int ; 145: 106111, 2020 12.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32971419
When assessing the human risks due to exposure to environmental chemicals, traditional dose-response analyses are not straightforward when there are numerous high-quality epidemiological studies of priority cancer and non-cancer health outcomes. Given this wealth of information, selecting a single "best" study on which to base dose-response analyses is difficult and would potentially ignore much of the available data. Therefore, systematic approaches are necessary for the analysis of these rich databases. Examples are meta-analysis (and further, meta-regression), which are well established methods that consider and incorporate information from multiple studies into the estimation of risks due to exposure to environmental contaminants. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical, Bayesian meta-analysis approach for the dose-response analysis of multiple epidemiological studies. This paper is the second of two papers detailing this approach; the first covered "pre-analysis" steps necessary to prepare the data for dose-response modeling. This paper focuses on the hierarchical Bayesian approach to dose-response modeling and extrapolation of risk to populations of interest using the association between bladder cancer and oral inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure as an illustrative case study. In particular, this paper addresses the modeling of both case-control and cohort studies with a flexible, logistic model in a hierarchical Bayesian framework that estimates study-specific slopes, as well as a pooled slope across all studies. This approach is akin to a random effects model in which no assumption is made a priori that there is a single, common slope for all included studies. Further, this paper also details extrapolation of the estimates of logistic slope to extra risk in a target population using a lifetable analysis and basic assumptions about background iAs exposure levels. In this case, the target population was the general United States population and information on all-cause mortality and incidence and mortality from bladder cancer was used to perform the lifetable analysis. The methods herein were developed for general use in investigating the association between any pollutant and observed health-effects in epidemiological studies. In order to demonstrate these methods, inorganic arsenic was chosen as a case study given the large epidemiological database that exists for this contaminant.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Arsenicales Tipo de estudio: Etiology_studies / Incidence_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies / Systematic_reviews Límite: Humans País/Región como asunto: America do norte Idioma: En Revista: Environ Int Año: 2020 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Países Bajos

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Arsenicales Tipo de estudio: Etiology_studies / Incidence_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies / Systematic_reviews Límite: Humans País/Región como asunto: America do norte Idioma: En Revista: Environ Int Año: 2020 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Países Bajos