Tests of trend between disease outcomes and ordinal covariates discretized from underlying continuous variables: simulation studies and applications to NHANES 2007-2008.

BMC Med Res Methodol · 2019 · PMC6321711 · PMID 30611216

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showed a trendno p-value reported

Applying the methods to NHANES showed a trend of increasing diabetes with increasing BMI.

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failed to achieve significanceno p-value reported

For high blood pressure, four valid weighted trend tests were significant, while the two valid unweighted trend tests failed to achieve significance.

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