アブストラクト | BACKGROUND: Identifying the key factors of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) and predicting its occurrence are vital for improving the prognosis of patients with GBS. However, there are scarcely any publications on a forewarning model of GBS. A Bayesian network (BN) model, which is known to be an accurate, interpretable, and interaction-sensitive graph model in many similar domains, is worth trying in GBS risk prediction. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to determine the most significant factors of GBS and further develop and validate a BN model for predicting GBS risk. METHODS: Large-scale influenza vaccine postmarketing surveillance data, including 79,165 US (obtained from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System between 1990 and 2017) and 12,495 European (obtained from the EudraVigilance system between 2003 and 2016) adverse events (AEs) reports, were extracted for model development and validation. GBS, age, gender, and the top 50 prevalent AEs were included for initial BN construction using the R package bnlearn. RESULTS: Age, gender, and 10 AEs were identified as the most significant factors of GBS. The posttest probability of GBS suggested that male vaccinees aged 50-64 years and without erythema should be on the alert or be warned by clinicians about an increased risk of GBS, especially when they also experience symptoms of asthenia, hypesthesia, muscular weakness, or paresthesia. The established BN model achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.866 (95% CI 0.865-0.867), sensitivity of 0.752 (95% CI 0.749-0.756), specificity of 0.882 (95% CI 0.879-0.885), and accuracy of 0.882 (95% CI 0.879-0.884) for predicting GBS risk during the internal validation and obtained values of 0.829, 0.673, 0.854, and 0.843 for area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy, respectively, during the external validation. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study illustrated that a BN model can effectively identify the most significant factors of GBS, improve understanding of the complex interactions among different postvaccination symptoms through its graphical representation, and accurately predict the risk of GBS. The established BN model could further assist clinical decision-making by providing an estimated risk of GBS for a specific vaccinee or be developed into an open-access platform for vaccinees' self-monitoring. |
ジャーナル名 | JMIR public health and surveillance |
Pubmed追加日 | 2022/3/26 |
投稿者 | Huang, Yun; Luo, Chongliang; Jiang, Ying; Du, Jingcheng; Tao, Cui; Chen, Yong; Hao, Yuantao |
組織名 | Department of Medical Statistics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.;Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.;Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of;Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.;Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in;St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.;Department of Neurology and Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, The Third;Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.;School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center;at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.;Peking University Center for Public Health and Epidemic Preparedness & Response,;Beijing, China. |
Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35333192/ |