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Treatment Effects of Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Alzheimer's Disease: a Causal Machine Learning Approach

2026-02-12 pharmacology and therapeutics Title + abstract only
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWO_ST_ABSINTRODUCTIONC_ST_ABSTreatment response in Alzheimers disease (AD) varies substantially across patients, yet no validated frameworks exist to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) from observational data while controlling for confounding bias. METHODSWe developed a causal machine learning framework integrating expert-guided causal graphs, complementary HTE estimators, sensitivity analyses, and policy learning. We applied it to cholinesterase inhibitors (C...

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