Using the area under the curve to reduce measurement error in predicting young adult blood pressure from childhood measures

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 3421-3435

  Cook, Nancy R ^a   Rosner, Bernard A ^a,b   Chen, Wei ^c   Srinivasan, Sathanur R ^c   Berenson, Gerald S ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Childhood; Growth curves; Measurement error; Tracking correlation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ERROR; FEMALE; GENDER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 7944233393     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1921     Document Type: Article

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