Revisiting the discriminatory accuracy of traditional risk factors in preeclampsia screening
by Merida Rodriguez-Lopez, Philippe Wagner, Raquel Perez-Vicente, Fatima Crispi, Juan Merlo
BackgroundPreeclampsia (PE) is associated with a high risk of perinatal morbidity and mortality. However, there is no consensus in the definition of high-risk women.
AimTo question current definition of high PE risk and propose a definition that considers individual heterogeneity to improves risk classification.
MethodsA stratified analysis by parity was conducted using the Swedish Birth Register between 2002–2010 including 626.600 pregnancies. The discriminatory accuracy (DA) of traditional definitions of high-risk women was compared with a new definition based on 1) specific combinations of individual variables and 2) a centile cut-off of the probability of PE predicted by a multiple logistic regression model.
ResultsNone of the classical risk-factors alone reached an acceptable DA. In multiparous, any combination of a risk-factor with previous PE or HBP reached a +LR>10. The combination of obesity and multiple pregnancy reached a good DA particularly in the presence of previous preeclampsia (positive likelihood ratio (LR+) = 26.5 or chronic hypertension (HBP) LR+ = 40.5. In primiparous, a LR+>15 was observed in multiple pregnancies with the simultaneous presence of obesity and diabetes mellitus or with HBP. Predicted probabilities above 97 centile in multiparous and 99 centile in primiparous provided high (LR+ = 12.5), and moderate (LR+ = 5.85), respectively. No one risk factor alone or in combination provided a LR- sufficiently low to rule-out the disease.
ConclusionsIn preeclampsia prediction the combination of specific risk factors provided a better discriminatory accuracy than traditional single risk approach. Our results contribute to a more personalized risk estimation of preeclampsia.
Publisher URL: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178528
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