PMID- 29862384 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 2575-2626 (Print) IS - 2575-2626 (Linking) VI - 2017 DP - 2017 Aug TI - Estimating Disease Onset Time by Modeling Lab Result Trajectories via Bayes Networks. PG - 374-379 LID - 10.1109/ICHI.2017.41 [doi] AB - The true onset time of a disease, particularly slow-onset diseases like Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), is rarely observable in electronic health records (EHRs). However, it is critical for analysis of time to events and for studying sequences of diseases. The aim of this study is to demonstrate a method for estimating the onset time of such diseases from intermittently observable laboratory results in the specific context of T2DM. A retrospective observational study design is used. A cohort of 5,874 non-diabetic patients from a large healthcare system in the Upper Midwest United States was constructed with a three-year follow-up period. The HbA1c level of each patient was collected from earliest and the latest follow-up. We modeled the patients' HbA1c trajectories through Bayesian networks to estimate the onset time of diabetes. Due to non-random censoring and interventions unobservable from EHR data (such as lifestyle changes), naive modeling of HbA1c through linear regression or modeling time-to-event through proportional hazard model leads to a clinically infeasible model with no or limited ability to predict the onset time of diabetes. Our model is consistent with clinical knowledge and estimated the onset of diabetes with less than a six-month error for almost half the patients for whom the onset time could be clinically ascertained. To our knowledge, this is the first study of modeling long-term HbA1c progression in non-diabetic patients and estimating the onset time of diabetes. FAU - Oh, Wonsuk AU - Oh W AD - Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota. FAU - Yadav, Pranjul AU - Yadav P AD - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota. FAU - Kumar, Vipin AU - Kumar V AD - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota. FAU - Caraballo, Pedro J AU - Caraballo PJ AD - Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic. FAU - Castro, M Regina AU - Castro MR AD - Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism & Nutrition, Mayo Clinic. FAU - Steinbach, Michael S AU - Steinbach MS AD - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota. FAU - Simon, Gyorgy J AU - Simon GJ AD - Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota. AD - Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota. LA - eng GR - R01 LM011972/LM/NLM NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170914 PL - United States TA - IEEE Int Conf Healthc Inform JT - IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics. IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics JID - 101683411 PMC - PMC5975351 MID - NIHMS968577 EDAT- 2018/06/05 06:00 MHDA- 2018/06/05 06:01 PMCR- 2018/05/30 CRDT- 2018/06/05 06:00 PHST- 2018/06/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/06/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/06/05 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/05/30 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1109/ICHI.2017.41 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - IEEE Int Conf Healthc Inform. 2017 Aug;2017:374-379. doi: 10.1109/ICHI.2017.41. Epub 2017 Sep 14.