st: stset with different start times

[Lars Folkestad <lfolkestad@health.sdu.dk>]

Dear list

I know this has been asked before, but i cannot see how to apply it to my data.

I have date from a register where cases can be entered if they are diagnosed between 1977-2009. Patients are entered at the time of diagnosis NOT the time of birth.

I am interested to draw a Kaplan-Meier curve for the patients in the register. My problem is that to avoid bias due to left truncation i want to enter the patients born prior to 1977 at their age in 1977 and NOT their time of birth.

My variable names are:


Date of birth = dob
Date of death=dod
Age at death/end of study = d_age
Age at 1977 (given born prior to 1977) = age_77


What i have done so far is:

.gen d_age = dod - dob
.gen byte died = dod < mdy(31,12,2009)
.stset age, died(died) scale(365.25)

But this does not take into account the above.

Thank you for your help.

Lars

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