Diabetes complications

Large-Scale Proteomics Improve Prediction of Chronic Kidney Disease in People With Diabetes

Diabetes CarePublished Prognostic model development and validation cohort study

Authors' conclusion

Adding the CKD protein risk score to a validated clinical risk model significantly improved the discrimination and reclassification of CKD risk in patients with diabetes.

Study context

Population
Patients with diabetes with proteomics and genetic information and no history of chronic kidney disease (CKD) at baseline, UK Biobank Pharma Proteomics Project1,047 test set
Participants
2,094 patients
Comparison
CKD protein risk score vs CKD-PC clinical risk model and CKD polygenic risk score
Outcome
Incident CKD
Follow-up
Median 12.1 years
Methodological detailstraining and test sets, proteomics (nearly 3,000 plasma proteins), Training set 1,047 participants, 117 CKD events; test set 1,047 participants, 112 CKD events
  • Training and test sets
  • Proteomics (nearly 3,000 plasma proteins)
  • Training set 1,047 participants, 117 CKD events; test set 1,047 participants, 112 CKD events

Performance

As reported in the abstract

Incident CKD prediction (test set)

Basic model

0.627

95% CI 0.578–0.675

Hazard ratio per SD increment (95% CI)
CKD protein risk scorevs Basic model
1.78(1.44–2.20)
Estimate (95% CI)
CKD protein risk scorevs Basic modelsignificant improvement
C-index increase 0.122(0.071–0.177)
CKD-PCvs Basic modelsignificant improvement
C-index increase 0.175(0.126–0.217)
CKD polygenic risk scorevs Basic modelno significant improvement
C-index increase 0.007(−0.016 to 0.025)
CKD-PC + CKD protein risk scorevs CKD-PCC-index from 0.802 to 0.825
C-index difference 0.023(0.006–0.044)
10-year continuous net reclassification, CKD-PC + protein score vs CKD-PC
0.199 (95% CI 0.059, 0.299)
10-year integrated discrimination index, CKD-PC + protein score vs CKD-PC
0.041 (95% CI 0.007, 0.083)

Original publication

Large-Scale Proteomics Improve Prediction of Chronic Kidney Disease in People With Diabetes. Diabetes Care. Published 23 July 2024. doi:10.2337/dc24-0290

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