Prevention & lipids

Large-scale plasma proteomics in the UK Biobank modestly improves prediction of major cardiovascular events in a population without previous cardiovascular disease

Eur J Prev CardiolPublished Prognostic cohort study

Authors' conclusion

Large-scale plasma proteomics with data-driven and literature-based protein selection modestly improves prediction of future MACE beyond TRFs.

Study context

Population
UK Biobank participants without previous CVD
Participants
38,380 participants
Comparison
Protein panels added to SCORE2 or 10 traditional risk factors vs SCORE2 or traditional risk factors alone
Outcome
MACE:
  • Fatal and non-fatal MI
  • Stroke
  • Coronary artery revascularization
Follow-up
10-year follow-up
Methodological detailsmachine learning (extreme gradient boosting), data- and literature-based feature selection
  • Machine learning (extreme gradient boosting)
  • Data- and literature-based feature selection

Performance

As reported in the abstract

MACE prediction

AUC

0.771

P < 001

Proteins + SCORE2 · net reclassification index (NRI) = 0.140

AUC

0.767

P = 0.03

Proteins + 10 traditional risk factors (TRFs) · NRI 0.053

SCORE2

0.740

AUC

SCORE2 refitted

0.749

AUC

114 proteins

0.758

AUC

Proteins + SCORE2

AUC
0.771
NRI
0.140

Proteins + 10 TRFs

AUC
0.767
NRI
0.053

Further findings

Literature-based (113 proteins from 5 studies) and random (114 proteins) selection

Literature-based selection improved risk prediction beyond TRFs; random selection did not

Original publication

Large-scale plasma proteomics in the UK Biobank modestly improves prediction of major cardiovascular events in a population without previous cardiovascular disease. Eur J Prev Cardiol. Published 28 March 2024. doi:10.1093/eurjpc/zwae124

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