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Using a life table to quantify survival-related selection bias in studies of racial health disparities.
| Τίτλος: | Using a life table to quantify survival-related selection bias in studies of racial health disparities. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Xia Q; New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY, USA. Electronic address: qiangxia@post.harvard.edu., Manandhar-Sasaki P; New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY, USA., Bertolino D; New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY, USA., Torian LV; New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY, USA., Edelstein ZR; New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY, USA., Zheng Y; Department of Epidemiology, Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China. |
| Πηγή: | Social science & medicine (1982) [Soc Sci Med] 2026 Jul; Vol. 401, pp. 119341. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Apr 27. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Pergamon Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8303205 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-5347 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02779536 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, c1982- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Mortality*/ethnology , Health Status Disparities* , Life Tables*, Black or African American/statistics & numerical data ; Hispanic or Latino/statistics & numerical data ; United States/epidemiology ; Female ; Humans ; Selection Bias ; White |
| Περίληψη: | Selection bias is one of the major threats to validity in epidemiologic studies. Survival-related selection bias occurs when people who died before the study cannot be recruited for participation in the study. Previous studies used real or simulated data to quantify survival-related selection bias in racial disparity analyses but reported various findings. Using a life table of Black, Hispanic, and white people born alive in the United States, 2022, and cumulative mortality rate ratio as an approximate of annual mortality rate ratio, we estimated that survival-related selection bias caused a 10.2% underestimation in Black-white all-cause mortality rate ratio and a 6.7% underestimation in Hispanic-white all-cause mortality rate ratio. We demonstrate that life tables can be used to quantify survival-related selection bias in racial disparity analyses of all-cause mortality. This method may be adaptable for other outcomes (e.g., diabetes) and in other disparity analyses (e.g., sex). (Copyright © 2026 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.) |
| Competing Interests: | Declaration of competing interest The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest. |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260429 Date Completed: 20260715 Latest Revision: 20260716 |
| Update Code: | 20260716 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119341 |
| PMID: | 42054918 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1873-5347 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119341 |