Publication

Prediction model to estimate presence of coronary artery disease: retrospective pooled analysis of existing cohorts

Journal Paper/Review - Jun 12, 2012

Units
PubMed

Citation
Laule M, Sinitsyn V, van Driessche L, van Mieghem C, Rowe G, Schoepf U, Davies L, Petersen S, Pugliese F, Friedrich G, Plank F, Auer T, Gopalan D, Nikolaou K, Zimmermann E, Dewey M, Hausleiter J, Hadamitzky M, Becker D, Merkely B, Bartykowszki A, Maurovich-Horvat P, Battle J, Cury R, Bamberg F, De Zordo T, Feuchtner G, Meijs M, Desbiolles L, Leschka S, Alkadhi H, Krestin G, de Feyter P, Mollet N, Galema T, Nieman K, Hunink M, Steyerberg E, Cramer M, Knuuti J, Fornaro J, Stinn B, Wildermuth S, Aldrovandi A, Seitun S, Martini C, Maffei E, Cademartiri F, Goetschalckx K, Bogaert J, Kajander S, Genders T. Prediction model to estimate presence of coronary artery disease: retrospective pooled analysis of existing cohorts. BMJ 2012; 344:e3485.
Type
Journal Paper/Review (English)
Journal
BMJ 2012; 344
Publication Date
Jun 12, 2012
Issn Electronic
1756-1833
Pages
e3485
Brief description/objective

OBJECTIVES
To develop prediction models that better estimate the pretest probability of coronary artery disease in low prevalence populations. DESIGN : Retrospective pooled analysis of individual patient data. SETTING : 18 hospitals in Europe and the United States.

PARTICIPANTS
Patients with stable chest pain without evidence for previous coronary artery disease, if they were referred for computed tomography (CT) based coronary angiography or catheter based coronary angiography (indicated as low and high prevalence settings, respectively).

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Obstructive coronary artery disease (≥ 50% diameter stenosis in at least one vessel found on catheter based coronary angiography). Multiple imputation accounted for missing predictors and outcomes, exploiting strong correlation between the two angiography procedures. Predictive models included a basic model (age, sex, symptoms, and setting), clinical model (basic model factors and diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and smoking), and extended model (clinical model factors and use of the CT based coronary calcium score). We assessed discrimination (c statistic), calibration, and continuous net reclassification improvement by cross validation for the four largest low prevalence datasets separately and the smaller remaining low prevalence datasets combined.

RESULTS
We included 5677 patients (3283 men, 2394 women), of whom 1634 had obstructive coronary artery disease found on catheter based coronary angiography. All potential predictors were significantly associated with the presence of disease in univariable and multivariable analyses. The clinical model improved the prediction, compared with the basic model (cross validated c statistic improvement from 0.77 to 0.79, net reclassification improvement 35%); the coronary calcium score in the extended model was a major predictor (0.79 to 0.88, 102%). Calibration for low prevalence datasets was satisfactory.

CONCLUSIONS
Updated prediction models including age, sex, symptoms, and cardiovascular risk factors allow for accurate estimation of the pretest probability of coronary artery disease in low prevalence populations. Addition of coronary calcium scores to the prediction models improves the estimates.