Using an optimized generative model to infer the progression of complications in type 2 diabetes patients

Background People live a long time in pre-diabetes/early diabetes without a formal diagnosis or management. Heterogeneity of progression coupled with deficiencies in electronic health records related to incomplete data, discrete events, and irregular event intervals make identification of pre-diabetes and critical points of diabetes progression challenging. Methods We utilized longitudinal electronic health records of 9298 patients with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes from 2005 to 2016 from a large regional healthcare delivery network in China. We optimized a generative Markov-Bayesian-based model to generate 5000 synthetic illness trajectories. The synthetic data were manually reviewed by endocrinologists. Results We build an optimized generative progression model for type 2 diabetes using anchor information to reduce the number of parameters learning in the third layer of the model from %$O\left(N\times W\right)%$ to %$O\left((N-C)\times W\right)%$, where %$N%$ is the number of clinical findings, %$W%$ is the number of complications, %$C%$ is the number of anchors. Based on this model, we infer the relationships between progression stages, the onset of complication categories, and the associated diagnoses during the whole progression of type 2 diabetes using electronic health records. Discussion Our findings indicate that 55.3% of single complications and 31.8% of complication patterns could be predicted early and managed appropriately to potentially delay (as it is a progressive disease) or prevented (by lifestyle modifications that keep patient from developing/triggering diabetes in the first place). Conclusions The full type 2 diabetes patient trajectories generated by the chronic disease progression model can counter a lack of real-world evidence of desired longitudinal timeframe while facilitating population health management..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

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BMC medical informatics and decision making - 22(2022), 1 vom: 01. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Xiaoxia [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Yifei [VerfasserIn]
Xiong, Yun [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Suhua [VerfasserIn]
He, Yanming [VerfasserIn]
He, Yuqing [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhikun [VerfasserIn]
Plasek, Joseph M. [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Li [VerfasserIn]
Bates, David W. [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Chunlei [VerfasserIn]

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Computer simulation
Diabetes mellitus, type 2
Disease progression model
Electronic health records
Probabilistic generative model

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© The Author(s) 2022

doi:

10.1186/s12911-022-01915-5

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SPR050824236