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1. Time trends in prevalence and incidence rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI birth cohort: (Publication); ... at 4, 7 and 10 years of age, respectively. The chi-square test, Student's t-test, and survival curves were estimated according to sex. The prevalence of overweight remained stable at 4 and 7 years of ag ...; Created on 25 September 2019
2. Time trends in prevalence and incidence rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI birth cohort: (Publication); ... at 4, 7 and 10 years of age, respectively. The chi-square test, Student’s t-test, and survival curves were estimated according to sex. The prevalence of overweight remained stable at 4 and 7 years of age ...; Created on 25 September 2019
3. Adjusting for bias introduced by instrumental variable estimation in the Cox proportional hazards model: (Publication); ... an endogenous treatment induces an unmeasured covariate, referred to as an individual frailty in survival analysis parlance, which if not accounted for leads to bias. We propose a new procedure that augments ...; Created on 25 September 2019
4. Five-year reintervention after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the Vascular Quality Initiative: (Publication); ... after EVR. We assessed these with Kaplan-Meier survival estimation. Results: We studied 12,911 patients who underwent EVR. The mean age was 75.5 years, 79.9% were male, 3.9% were black, and 89.1% of operations ...; Created on 25 September 2019
5. A method for determining groups in multiple survival curves ...: (Publication); Survival analysis includes a wide variety of methods for analyzing time‐to‐event data. One basic but important goal in survival analysis is the comparison of survival curves between groups. Several nonparametric ...; Created on 23 August 2019
6. Longevity defined as top 10% survivors and beyond is transmitted as a quantitative genetic trait: (Publication); Survival to extreme ages clusters within families. However, identifying genetic loci conferring longevity and low morbidity in such longevous families is challenging. There is debate concerning the survival ...; Created on 23 August 2019
7. A comparative analysis of long-term mortality after carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting: (Publication); Background The value of carotid intervention is predicated on long-term survival for patients to derive a stroke prevention benefit. Randomized trials report no significant difference in survival after ...; Created on 22 August 2019
8. Comment on ‘Baseline patients’ characteristics as predictors for therapeutic survival and response in patients with psoriasis on biological treatments' ...: (Publication); Created on 22 August 2019
9. External Validation and Recalculation of the CODEX Index in COPD Patients. A 3CIAplus Cohort Study: (Publication); The CODEX index was developed and validated in patients hospitalized for COPD exacerbation to predict the risk of death and readmission within one year after discharge. Our study aimed to validate the ...; Created on 22 August 2019
10. Lectin-like transcript 1 (LLT1) expression is associated with nodal metastasis in patients with head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma: (Publication); ... (95% CI 1.79–21.2) and 6.10 (95% CI 1.45–25.7). Strong LLT1 expression is an independent predictor of nodal metastasis and poor disease-specific survival and it might be helpful for risk stratification ...; Created on 22 August 2019
11. Serum phosphate optimal timing and range associated with patients survival in haemodialysis: the COSMOS study  ...: (Publication); Background Serum phosphate is a key parameter in the management of chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). The timing of phosphate measurement is not standardized in the current guidelines. ...; Created on 10 October 2018
12. Longevity Around the Turn of the 20th Century: Life-Long Sustained Survival Advantage for Parents of Today's Nonagenarians. ...: (Publication); ... mortality ratios (SMRs) were estimated to investigate whether longevous siblings have a survival advantage compared with longevous singletons and we investigated whether parents of longevous siblings harbor ...; Created on 03 October 2018
13. MUL plus DO: a multicomponent index for the quick diagnosis of peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients: (Publication); Peritoneal infection is a common problem that has a negative impact on the survival of patients and the technique. The early administration of peritoneal infection treatment reduces complications. The ...; Created on 01 October 2018
14. Estimation of monotone bivariate quantile residual life: (Publication); The bivariate quantile residual life function can play an important role in statistical reliability and survival analysis. In many situations assuming a decreasing form for it is recommended. Here, we ...; Created on 28 September 2018
15. Survival analysis with delayed entry in selected families with application to human longevity: (Publication); ... around 10 years. For estimation of marker-specific survival probabilities and correlations among life times of family members, delayed entry due to outcome-dependent sampling mechanisms has to be taken ...; Created on 22 May 2018
16. Nonparametric Estimation of Transition Probabilities for a General Progressive Multi-State Model Under CrossSectional Sampling: (Publication); ... two survival functions constructed for sub-samples of subjects occupyingspeciﬁc states at a certain time point. Both estimators correct the oversampling of relatively large survival times by usingthe left-truncation ...; Created on 20 February 2018
17. A weighted estimator of conditional hazard rate with left-truncated and dependent data: (Publication); Based on empirical likelihood method, we construct new weighted estimators of conditional density and conditional survival functions when the interest random variable is subject to random left-truncation; ...; Created on 24 January 2018
18. Adjusting for bias introduced by instrumental variable estimation in the Cox proportional hazards model: (Publication); ... an endogenous treatment induces an unmeasured covariate, referred to as an individual frailty in survival analysis parlance, which if not accounted for leads to bias. We propose a new procedure that augments ...; Created on 10 October 2018
19. Nonparametric estimation of an event-free survival distribution under cross-sectional sampling ...: (Publication); Created on 02 August 2018
20. Copula-graphic estimation with left-truncated and right-censored data: (Publication); In Survival Analysis and related fields of research right-censored and left-truncated data often appear. Usually, it is assumed that the right-censoring variable is independent of the lifetime of ultimate ...; Created on 23 January 2018
21. Long-Term Survival After Carotid Endarterectomy and Carotid Stenting: A Propensity-Matched Analysis ...: (Publication); ... studies of “real-world” results document CEA to be associated with a survival advantage. Our objective was to examine long-term survival after CEA vs CAS using a propensity-matched cohort. ...; Created on 23 January 2018
22. Comparison of two discrimination indexes in the categorisation of continuous predictors in time-to-event studies: (Publication); The Cox proportionalhazards model is the most widely used survival predictionmodel for analysing time-to-event data. To measure the discrimination ability of a survival model the concordance probability ...; Created on 18 September 2017
23. Sentinel lymph node biopsy plus wide local excision vs. wide location excision alone for primary cutaneous melanoma: a systematic review and meta‐analysis: (Publication); ... of study design, characteristics of participants and the Hazard risk (HR) for melanoma specific survival (MSS) with the corresponding 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were collected. Methodological assessmen ...; Created on 18 September 2017
24. A multicomponent index for a quick diagnosis of peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients: (Publication); Introduction and aims: Peritoneal infection (PI) is very frecuent and negatively impacts on survival of peritoneal dialysis technique. Currently, the gold standard for the diagnosis of ""typical"" bacteria ...; Created on 18 September 2017
25. The adverse prognostic effect of tumor budding on the evolution of cutaneous head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.: (Publication); ... cSCCs to regional lymph nodes were retrospectively studied. Statistical analyses were carried out to assess the relationship between tumor budding, clinicopathologic parameters, and patient survival. Results: ...; Created on 18 September 2017
26. A study of risks of Bayes estimators in the generalized half-logistic distribution for progressively type-II censored samples: (Publication); The problem of estimation of the shape parameter in a generalized half-logistic distribution for progressively type-II censored samples is of interest in reliability and survival analysis. In this paper, ...; Created on 18 September 2017
27. Incidence of cardiovascular events and associated risk factors in kidney transplant patients: a competing risks survival analysis ...: (Publication); ... Coruña (Spain) during the period 1981–2011 was completed. Competing risk survival analysis methods were applied to estimate the cumulative incidence of developing cardiovascular events over time and to ...; Created on 18 September 2017
28. condSURV: An R Package for the Estimation of the Conditional Survival Function for Ordered Multivariate Failure Time Data ...: (Publication); One major goal in clinical applications of time-to-event data is the estimation of survival with censored data. The usual nonparametric estimator of the survival function is the time-honored Kaplan-Meier ...; Created on 22 May 2018
29. Survival analysis with delayed entry in selected families with application to human longevity: (Publication); ... for around 10 years. For estimation of marker-specific survival probabilities and correlations among life times of family members, delayed entry due to outcome-dependent sampling mechanisms has to be taken ...; Created on 18 September 2017
30. Kaplan-Meier estimator in competing risk contexts: (Publication); Survival analysis has become in a common procedure in biomedical researches. Conventionally, the well-known nonparametric Kaplan-Meier (KM) estimator is used in order to approximate the real survivor curve. ...; Created on 18 September 2017
31. Survival of biological drugs in the treatment of chronic inflammatory arthropathies: (Publication); Objectives: To analyze the survival of treatment lines with different biologics in a cohort of patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (AP), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and ...; Created on 18 September 2017
32. Impact of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway activation on the prognosis of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinomas: (Publication); ... have been described; however, their prognostic significance and impact on HNSCC patient survival remains to be established. This was addressed using an unbiased cohort of 93 consecutive and homogeneous ...; Created on 04 November 2016
33. Nonparametric estimation of the survival function for ordered multivariate failure time data: A comparative study ...: (Publication); ... have received much attention recently. Issues of interest include the estimation of bivariate survival, marginal distributions, and the conditional distribution of gap times. In this work, we consider ...; Created on 04 November 2016
34. Nonparametric estimation of time-dependent ROC curves conditional on a continuous covariate: (Publication); ... be taken into account: first, the time-dependent nature of the disease status; and second, the presence of incomplete data (e.g. censored data typically present in survival studies). Accordingly, to assess ...; Created on 04 November 2016
35. Methods for testing the Markov condition in the illness–death model: a comparative study: (Publication); Markov three-state progressive and illness–death models are often used in biomedicine for describing survival data when an intermediate event of interest may be observed during the follow-up. However, ...; Created on 23 October 2016
36. TPmsm: Estimation of the transition probabilities in 3-state models: (Publication); One major goal in clinical applications of multi-state models is the estimation of transition probabilities. The usual nonparametric estimator of the transition matrix for non-homogeneous Markov processes ...; Created on 01 September 2017
37. Expanded renal transplantation: A competing risk model approach: (Publication); Multi-state models (MSMs) are useful to analyze survival data when, besides the event of main interest, one or more intermediate states of the individual are identified. These models take the several existing ...; Created on 01 September 2017
38. Severe acute kidney injury in critically ill children: Epidemiology and prognostic factors: (Publication); ... and low creatinine clearance values were prognostic markers of RRT at PICU discharge. High values of platelets, serum creatinine and weight were associated with higher survival. Conclusions: Critically ...; Created on 01 September 2017
39. Mortality prediction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease comparing the GOLD 2007 and 2011 staging systems: a pooled analysis of individual patient data: (Publication); ... We used survival analysis, C statistics, and non-parametric regression to model time-to-death data and compare GOLD 2007 and GOLD 2011 staging systems to predict mortality. Findings We collected individual ...; Created on 01 September 2017
40. Clinical significance of ANOCTAMIN-1 gene at 11q13 in the development and progression of head and neq aquamous cell carcinomas: (Publication); ... expression differentially influenced patient survival depending on the tumour site. Collectively, this study provides original evidence demonstrating the distinctive impact of ANO1 expression on HNSCC ...; Created on 01 September 2017
41. Improvement of mineral and bone metabolism markers in associated with better survival in hemodialysis patients: the COSMOS study ...: (Publication); Abnormalities in serum phosphorus, calcium and parathyroid hormone (PTH) have been associated with poor survival in haemodialysis patients. This COSMOS (Current management Of Secondary hyperparathyroidism: ...; Created on 01 September 2017
42. Rabbit antithymocyte globulin versus horse antithymocyte globulin for treatment of acquired aplastic anemia: a retrospective analysis: (Publication); ... response to treatment or survival between the rATG and hATG groups. The response to treatment was 63 % in the rATG group versus 66 % in the hATG group at 3 months. By 12 months, this pattern had reversed, ...; Created on 01 September 2017
43. Effectiveness of azacitidine in unselected high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes: Results from the Spanish Registry: (Publication); The benefit of azacitidine treatment in survival of high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) patients compared with conventional care treatment (CCT) has not been established outside clinical trials. ...; Created on 01 September 2017
44. Generalized copula-graphic estimator with left-truncated and right-censored data: (Publication); In this paper a copula-graphic estimator is proposed for left-truncated and right-censored survival data. It is assumed that there is some dependent censoring acting on the variable of interest, which ...; Created on 03 December 2016
45. Generalized copula-graphic estimator: (Publication); In this paper, a copula-graphic estimator is proposed for censored survival data. It is assumed that there is some dependent censoring acting on the variable of interest that may come from an existing ...; Created on 14 January 2019
46. Density comparison for independent and right censored samples via kernel smoothing: (Publication); In this paper the problem of comparing k density functions from survival data is considered. Two non-parametric tests based on (two different) generalizations of the L1 measure are adapted to the censored ...; Created on 04 September 2017
47. Advances in survival data: parametric vs nonparametric truncation ...: (Publication); Created on 21 September 2017
48. A nonparametric test for Markovianity in the illness-death model: (Publication); Multistate models are useful tools for modeling disease progression when survival is the main outcome, but several intermediate events of interest are observed during the follow-up time. The illness-death ...; Created on 08 September 2017
49. Testing Markovianity in the three-state progressive model via future-past association: (Publication); The three-state progressive model is a special multi-state model with important applications in Survival Analysis. It provides a suitable representation of the individual's history when an intermediat ...; Created on 08 September 2017
50. Kernel density estimation with doubly truncated data: (Publication); In some applications with astronomical and survival data, doubly truncated data are sometimes encountered. In this work we introduce kernel-type density estimation for a random variable which is sampled ...; Created on 08 September 2017