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Table 1 Estimates of multilevel model fixed effects and random effects variances (± SE) in the selected and unselected samples with or without adjustment for BMI

From: Multilevel modeling for the analysis of longitudinal blood pressure data in the Framingham Heart Study pedigrees

 

Unselected Sample

Selected Sample

 

Adjusted (1a)

Unadjusted (1b)

Adjusted (2a)

Unadjusted (2b)

Fixed effects estimates

    

Intercept

132.46 (0.56)***

132.00 (0.57)***

131.16 (0.58)***

131.80 (0.59)***

Age effectA

0.60 (0.02)***

0.63 (0.02)***

0.61 (0.02)***

0.63 (0.02)***

Age2 effectA

0.013 (0.001)***

0.010 (0.001)***

0.014 (0.001)***

0.001 (0.001)***

BMI effectA

1.45 (0.05)***

-

1.4 (0.05)***

-

Treat effect

-2.13 (0.42)***

-1.45 (0.43)***

-2.2 (0.43)***

-1.52 (0.44)***

Age * Treatment effect

-0.35 (0.04)***

-0.34 (0.04)***

-0.34 (0.04)***

-0.34 (0.04)***

   Subject random intercept model

    

Mean age effectA

0.53 (0.03)***

0.65 (0.03)***

0.62 (0.04)***

0.72 (0.04)***

Mean BMI effectA

1.16 (0.06)***

-

1.21 (0.07)***

-

Cohort effect

-6.56 (0.67)***

-5.21 (0.70)***

-5.74 (0.71)***

-4.68 (0.74)***

Gender effect

2.27 (0.51)***

3.59 (0.53)***

1.71 (0.53)***

3.09 (0.56)***

   Subject random slope model

    

Mean BMI effectA

-0.014 (0.003)***

-

-0.015 (0.003)***

-

Cohort effect

-0.46 (0.03)***

-0.29 (0.03)***

-0.42 (0.03)***

-0.27 (0.03)***

Gender effect

-0.03 (0.03)

-0.07 (0.03)*

-0.04 (0.03)

-0.08 (0.03)**

Covariance Parameter Estimates

    

Measurement error variance

140.85 (1.64)***

148.11 (1.73)***

141.80 (1.68)***

149.01 (1.77)***

AR(1) correlation

0.25 (0.01)***

0.26 (0.01)***

0.25 (0.01)***

0.26 (0.01)***

Subject level var(u0jk)

146.25 (5.01)***

161.79 (5.49)***

147.63 (5.30)***

164.31 (5.84)***

var(u1jk)

0.17 (0.01)***

0.20 (0.01)***

0.17 (0.01)***

0.20 (0.01)***

cov(u0jk, u1jk)

1.41 (0.19)***

0.85 (0.21)***

1.42 (0.20)***

0.86 (0.22)***

Pedigree level var(v00k)

27.59 (4.17)***

24.41 (4.07)***

27.04 (4.31)***

23.22 (4.13)***

var(v01k)

0.008 (0.005)*

0.005 (0.005)

0.009 (0.005)*

0.006 (0.005)

cov(v00k, v01k)

0.52 (0.12)***

0.37 (0.11)**

0.49 (0.12)***

0.37 (0.12)**

-2 REML

202,695.75

205,876.11

194,947.18

198,006.24

  1. AVariables centered * p < 0.05 ** p < 0.01 *** p < 0.001