Evaluating the Performance of High-Dimensional Propensity Scores Compared with Standard Propensity Scores for Comparing Antihypertensive Therapies in the CPRD GOLD Database.

Published in: Cardiology and therapy (2023)

HdPS can identify proxies for missing confounders, thereby having an advantage over PS in case of unobserved covariates. Both PS and hdPS showed superiority of bitherapy over monotherapy for reaching blood pressure control.

Keyphrases

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heart rate
combination therapy
open label
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adverse drug
blood glucose
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metabolic syndrome
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