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Record W4406733090 · doi:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000700

Predicting the onset of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for diabetic patients with aggregated longitudinal EMR data

2025· article· en· W4406733090 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePLOS Digital Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicChronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
Canadian institutionsNorth York General HospitalUniversity of TorontoYork University
FundersDivision of Mathematical SciencesNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaDuke Kunshan UniversityUniversity of TorontoYork UniversityDiabetes Action CanadaFields Institute for Research in Mathematical SciencesCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchDiabetes Action Research and Education Foundation
KeywordsMedicineKidney diseaseRenal functionQuartileDiabetes mellitusMedical recordCohortPopulationInternal medicineIntensive care medicinePhysical therapyConfidence intervalEndocrinology

Abstract

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects over 13% of the population, totaling more than 800 million individuals worldwide. Timely identification and intervention are crucial to delay CKD progression and improve patient outcomes. This research focuses on developing a predictive model to classify diabetic patients showing signs of kidney function impairment based on their CKD development risk. Our model utilizes electronic medical record (EMR) data, specifically by incorporating patient demographics, laboratory results, chronic conditions, risk factors, and medication codes to predict the onset of CKD in diabetic patients six months in advance, achieving an average Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.88. We leverage aggregated EMR data to effectively capture relevant information within the observation year instead of using temporal EMR data. Furthermore, we identify the most significant features for predicting CKD onset, including mean, minimum, and first quartile of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) during the observation year, along with variables such as diagnosis age and duration of hypertension, osteoarthritis, and diabetes, as well as levels of hemoglobin and fasting blood glucose (FBG). We also explored a refined model utilizing only these most significant features, which yields a slightly lower AUC of 0.86. These variables are typically available in primary data, empowering physicians for real-time risk assessment. The proposed model's ability to identify higher-risk patients is essential for timely intervention, personalized care, risk stratification, patient education, and potential cost savings. This research contributes valuable insights for healthcare practitioners seeking efficient tools for early CKD detection in diabetic populations.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.849

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.268 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it