Development of risk prediction models for preterm delivery in a rural setting in Ethiopia
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Background: Preterm birth complications are the leading causes of death among children under five years. However, the inability to accurately identify pregnancies at high risk of preterm delivery is a key practical challenge, especially in resource-constrained settings with limited availability of biomarkers assessment.
Methods: We evaluated whether risk of preterm delivery can be predicted using available data from a pregnancy and birth cohort in Amhara region, Ethiopia. All participants were enrolled in the cohort between December 2018 and March 2020. The study outcome was preterm delivery, defined as any delivery occurring before week 37 of gestation regardless of vital status of the foetus or neonate. A range of sociodemographic, clinical, environmental, and pregnancy-related factors were considered as potential inputs. We used Cox and accelerated failure time models, alongside decision tree ensembles to predict risk of preterm delivery. We estimated model discrimination using the area-under-the-curve (AUC) and simulated the conditional distributions of cervical length (CL) and foetal fibronectin (FFN) to ascertain whether they could improve model performance.
Results: We included 2493 pregnancies; among them, 138 women were censored due to loss-to-follow-up before delivery. Overall, predictive performance of models was poor. The AUC was highest for the tree ensemble classifier (0.60, 95% confidence interval = 0.57-0.63). When models were calibrated so that 90% of women who experienced a preterm delivery were classified as high risk, at least 75% of those classified as high risk did not experience the outcome. The simulation of CL and FFN distributions did not significantly improve models' performance.
Conclusions: Prediction of preterm delivery remains a major challenge. In resource-limited settings, predicting high-risk deliveries would not only save lives, but also inform resource allocation. It may not be possible to accurately predict risk of preterm delivery without investing in novel technologies to identify genetic factors, immunological biomarkers, or the expression of specific proteins.
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Journal of global health - 13(2023) vom: 26. Mai, Seite 04051 |
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Pons-Duran, Clara [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 26.05.2023 Date Revised 27.05.2023 published: Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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| 520 | |a Background: Preterm birth complications are the leading causes of death among children under five years. However, the inability to accurately identify pregnancies at high risk of preterm delivery is a key practical challenge, especially in resource-constrained settings with limited availability of biomarkers assessment | ||
| 520 | |a Methods: We evaluated whether risk of preterm delivery can be predicted using available data from a pregnancy and birth cohort in Amhara region, Ethiopia. All participants were enrolled in the cohort between December 2018 and March 2020. The study outcome was preterm delivery, defined as any delivery occurring before week 37 of gestation regardless of vital status of the foetus or neonate. A range of sociodemographic, clinical, environmental, and pregnancy-related factors were considered as potential inputs. We used Cox and accelerated failure time models, alongside decision tree ensembles to predict risk of preterm delivery. We estimated model discrimination using the area-under-the-curve (AUC) and simulated the conditional distributions of cervical length (CL) and foetal fibronectin (FFN) to ascertain whether they could improve model performance | ||
| 520 | |a Results: We included 2493 pregnancies; among them, 138 women were censored due to loss-to-follow-up before delivery. Overall, predictive performance of models was poor. The AUC was highest for the tree ensemble classifier (0.60, 95% confidence interval = 0.57-0.63). When models were calibrated so that 90% of women who experienced a preterm delivery were classified as high risk, at least 75% of those classified as high risk did not experience the outcome. The simulation of CL and FFN distributions did not significantly improve models' performance | ||
| 520 | |a Conclusions: Prediction of preterm delivery remains a major challenge. In resource-limited settings, predicting high-risk deliveries would not only save lives, but also inform resource allocation. It may not be possible to accurately predict risk of preterm delivery without investing in novel technologies to identify genetic factors, immunological biomarkers, or the expression of specific proteins | ||
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