#SER2025
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I am headed to Capitol Hill with @geronsociety.bsky.social! We are advocating for science and aging research funding through The NIH. This is a new experience for me, and I'm excited to talk about my work in aging research and the impact it has on all people.
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
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They were able to connect the HAALSA cohort back to the underlying census data in Agincourt, South Africa to identify people who would have been eligible to enroll had they survived to baseline. They were able to identify 9000+ premature deaths in the source population #SER2024
We can use different methods to addresss censoring from death during a study, from prebaseline mortality, but what can we do about pre-selection mortality? #SER2024
Erika Beidelman is presenting a talk at #SER2024 entitled "Using target population data to address selective survival in an aging cohort: Findings from the HAALSI study" @epiresearch.bsky.social
There are some identifiability assumptions for death. 1. Exchangability, 2. Positivity, 3. Consistency. #SER2024
What are competing events? Ones that preclude the outcome of interest SER2024 @epiresearch
L. Paloma Rojas-Saunero is presenting "When survival bias is not truly a bias, but rather the correct answer to the wrong question" #SER2024 @epiresearch.bsky.social
Is there evidence of selective survival by race? It depends on demographics! Evidence presented from HRS #SER2024 @epiresearch.bsky.social
Alexis Reeves is talking about Black-White Differences in “Weathering”: Examining the Cross-Over Phenomenon for Disparities Research at #SER2024 @epiresearch.bsky.social
Solutions survival bias? 1. Conduct a trial, a target trial, or instrumental variable 2. Start study before events have occurred, 3. Take advantage of pops with different structure of competing risks, 4. Use assoc with age at recruitment, 5. Don't do it #SER2024 @epiresearch.bsky.social
Dr. Schooling is at #SER2024 talking about making survival bias explicit in our DAGs, selection diagrams, and in our wording. @epiresearch.bsky.social
I'm excited to hear about #selectivesurvival at #SER2024. There are still some seats available in waterloo 1/2