Time-to-event modeling of hypertension reveals the nonexistence of true controls

Given a lifetime risk of ~90% by the ninth decade of life, it is unknown if there are true controls for hypertension in epidemiological and genetic studies. Here, we compared Bayesian logistic and time-to-event approaches to modeling hypertension. The median age at hypertension was approximately a d...

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Main Authors: Daniel Shriner, Amy R Bentley, Jie Zhou, Kenneth Ekoru, Ayo P Doumatey, Guanjie Chen, Adebowale Adeyemo, Charles N Rotimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-12-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/62998