Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS |
Invited Commentary: What’s So Bad about Curves Crossing Anyway?
1 Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD.
2 Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, Hyattsville, MD.
Received for publication November 18, 2003; accepted for publication December 15, 2003.
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
The purpose of science is not to analyse or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.—Edward De Bono
When we trained in pediatrics during the era before synthetic surfactant, there was an old saw among neonatologists that African-American infants, when born remote from term, were more likely to survive than White infants born after pregnancies of comparable duration. It was said that African-American infants seemed less likely to develop neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, and, when they did, it was less severe. Old clinical saws are often wrong, but when the Centers for Disease Control linked the birth and infant death certificates for the 1980 birth cohort, the clinical impression of the neonatologists proved correct. Whether maturity was measured
CiteULike 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us What's this?
Related articles in Am. J. Epidemiol.:
- A Proportional Hazards Model with Time-dependent Covariates and Time-varying Effects for Analysis of Fetal and Infant Death
- Robert W. Platt, K. S. Joseph, Cande V. Ananth, Justin Grondines, Michal Abrahamowicz, and Michael S. Kramer
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2004 160: 199-206.[Abstract] [FREE Full Text] - On the Definition of Gestational-Age-specific Mortality
- Yin-Bun Cheung
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2004 160: 207-210.[Abstract] [FREE Full Text] - Invited Commentary: Analysis of Gestational-Age-specific Mortality—On What Biologic Foundations?
- Allen J. Wilcox and Clarice R. Weinberg
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2004 160: 213-214.[Extract] [FREE Full Text] - Platt et al. Respond to the Two Invited Commentaries
- Robert W. Platt, K. S. Joseph, Cande V. Ananth, Justin Grondines, Michal Abrahamowicz, and Michael S. Kramer
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2004 160: 215-216.[Extract] [FREE Full Text]
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  J. D. Parker and M. A. Klebanoff Invited Commentary: Crossing Curves--It's Time to Focus on Gestational Age-specific Mortality Am. J. Epidemiol., April 1, 2009; 169(7): 798 - 801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
O. Basso and A. J. Wilcox Intersecting Birth Weight-specific Mortality Curves: Solving the Riddle Am. J. Epidemiol., April 1, 2009; 169(7): 787 - 797. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
T. F. McElrath, J. L. Hecht, O. Dammann, K. Boggess, A. Onderdonk, G. Markenson, M. Harper, E. Delpapa, E. N. Allred, A. Leviton, et al. Pregnancy Disorders That Lead to Delivery Before the 28th Week of Gestation: An Epidemiologic Approach to Classification Am. J. Epidemiol., November 1, 2008; 168(9): 980 - 989. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 A. H. Schempf, A. M. Branum, S. L. Lukacs, and K. C. Schoendorf The Contribution of Preterm Birth to the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1990 and 2000 Am J Public Health, July 1, 2007; 97(7): 1255 - 1260. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
S. Hernandez-Diaz, E. F. Schisterman, and M. A. Hernan The Birth Weight "Paradox" Uncovered? Am. J. Epidemiol., December 1, 2006; 164(11): 1115 - 1120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
G. C. S. Smith RE: "A PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL WITH TIME-DEPENDENT COVARIATES AND TIME-VARYING EFFECTS FOR ANALYSIS OF FETAL AND INFANT DEATH" Am. J. Epidemiol., January 1, 2005; 161(1): 100 - 100. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
R. W. Platt, K. S. Joseph, C. V. Ananth, J. Grondines, M. Abrahamowicz, and M. S. Kramer Platt et al. Respond to the Two Invited Commentaries Am. J. Epidemiol., August 1, 2004; 160(3): 215 - 216. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|