Methods to estimate underlying blood pressure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

ABSTRACT: Antihypertensive medications complicate studies of blood pressure (BP) natural history; BP if untreated ("underlying BP") needs to be estimated. Our objectives were to compare validity of five missing data imputation methods to estimate underlying BP and longitudinal associations of underlying BP and age. We simulated BP treatment in untreated hypertensive participants from Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) in visits 1-5 (1987-2013) using matched treated hypertensive participants. The underlying BP was imputed: #1, set as missing; #2, add 10 mmHg for systolic, 5 mmHg for diastolic; #3, add medication class-specific constant; #4, truncated normal regression; and #5, truncated normal regression including prior visit data. Longitudinal associations were estimated using linear mixed m

SUBMITTER: Balakrishnan P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5507409 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature