The association of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet with Mortality in the EPIC-Spain cohort using Flexible Parametric Survival Models

In this master thesis, we have analyzed the role of the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (mdscore) on global mortality and have performed a comparison of Cox's proportional hazards model and the Flexible Parametric PH model proposed by Royston and Parmar (2002). This study include individual...

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Autor: Alarcón Soto, Yovaninna|||0000-0002-9977-8634
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/88490
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/88490
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Survival analysis (Biometry)
Survival analysis
Proportional hazards
Splines
Flexible parametric model
Adherence to the mediterranean diet
Anàlisi de supervivència (Biometria)
Classificació AMS::62 Statistics::62N Survival analysis and censored data
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Estadística matemàtica
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Sumario:In this master thesis, we have analyzed the role of the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (mdscore) on global mortality and have performed a comparison of Cox's proportional hazards model and the Flexible Parametric PH model proposed by Royston and Parmar (2002). This study include individuals from five Spanish regions of the European Prospective cohort into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Spain). Both fitted models consider the mdscore as the main variable, are stratified by sex, center and age at recruitment, and adjusted by potential confounders such as: smoke status, BMI, physical activity, energy intake, waist circumference and educational level.