“We sought to develop a modified HCT-CI that would be more practical and efficient in predicting outcomes of adolescent and young adult patients,” he wrote.
Data were collected on 15 comorbidities included in the original HCT-CI study, as well as the psychosocial risk factors. The relationship between multiple variables and the incidence of nonrelapse mortality was investigated via the Fine and Gray competing risk model with adjustments for patient- and transplant-specific factors.
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A few things were “looked at differently,” he said, explaining, for example, that multiple cardiovascular risk factors were combined into one since they are rare in younger patients.
The study demonstrated that an index including only a few comorbidities important in adolescents and young adults is more predictive in these younger patients vs. adults, suggesting that a simpler model is more practical and useful, Dr. Friend said.