I'm studying the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality in different cohorts. I´ve been running multivariable cox model restricted cubic splines using the macro lgtphcurv9 (https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/271/2012/09/lgtphcurv9_7-3-2011.pdf) to plot the association between BMI and mortality, which is u-shaped. I'm interested in the lowest risk BMI value and its 95% confidence interval. To get the lowest risk value, I just went to the output table which provides a long table with all the BMI values and the estimate (HR, which then is plotted in a figure), and record the lowest risk value. However, I'm struggling in getting 95% confidence intervals of this value. I understand that doing bootstrapping can be an option to create this 95% CI, but I dont know how to run bootstrapping through this macro... can anybody help me with this? thanks Pablo
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