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Development and external validation of the psychosis metabolic risk calculator (PsyMetRiC): a cardiometabolic risk prediction algorithm for young people with psychosis

Perry, Ben, Osimo, Emanuele, Upthegrove, Rachel, Mallikarjun, Pavan, Yorke, Jessica, Stochl, Jan, Perez, Jesus, Zammit, Stanley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-9211, Howes, Oliver, Jones, Peter and Khandaker, Golam 2021. Development and external validation of the psychosis metabolic risk calculator (PsyMetRiC): a cardiometabolic risk prediction algorithm for young people with psychosis. Lancet Psychiatry 8 (7) , pp. 589-598. 10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00114-0

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Abstract

Background Young people with psychosis are at high risk of developing cardiometabolic disorders; however, there is no suitable cardiometabolic risk prediction algorithm for this group. We aimed to develop and externally validate a cardiometabolic risk prediction algorithm for young people with psychosis. Methods We developed the Psychosis Metabolic Risk Calculator (PsyMetRiC) to predict up to 6-year risk of incident metabolic syndrome in young people (aged 16–35 years) with psychosis from commonly recorded information at baseline. We developed two PsyMetRiC versions using the forced entry method: a full model (including age, sex, ethnicity, body-mass index, smoking status, prescription of a metabolically active antipsychotic medication, HDL concentration, and triglyceride concentration) and a partial model excluding biochemical results. PsyMetRiC was developed using data from two UK psychosis early intervention services (Jan 1, 2013, to Nov 4, 2020) and externally validated in another UK early intervention service (Jan 1, 2012, to June 3, 2020). A sensitivity analysis was done in UK birth cohort participants (aged 18 years) who were at risk of developing psychosis. Algorithm performance was assessed primarily via discrimination (C statistic) and calibration (calibration plots). We did a decision curve analysis and produced an online data-visualisation app. Findings 651 patients were included in the development samples, 510 in the validation sample, and 505 in the sensitivity analysis sample. PsyMetRiC performed well at internal (full model: C 0·80, 95% CI 0·74–0·86; partial model: 0·79, 0·73–0·84) and external validation (full model: 0·75, 0·69–0·80; and partial model: 0·74, 0·67–0·79). Calibration of the full model was good, but there was evidence of slight miscalibration of the partial model. At a cutoff score of 0·18, in the full model PsyMetRiC improved net benefit by 7·95% (sensitivity 75%, 95% CI 66–82; specificity 74%, 71–78), equivalent to detecting an additional 47% of metabolic syndrome cases. Interpretation We have developed an age-appropriate algorithm to predict the risk of incident metabolic syndrome, a precursor of cardiometabolic morbidity and mortality, in young people with psychosis. PsyMetRiC has the potential to become a valuable resource for early intervention service clinicians and could enable personalised, informed health-care decisions regarding choice of antipsychotic medication and lifestyle interventions.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Additional Information: This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 2215-0366
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 22 March 2021
Date of Acceptance: 9 March 2021
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2023 21:49
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139991

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