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June 7, 2026Diabetes

2247-P: Uncertainty-Calibrated Prediction of Cardiovascular–Kidney–Liver–Metabolic Disease Using Clinical Biomarkers and Plasma Proteomics

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Why the study?

Does integrating clinical biomarkers and plasma proteomics improve uncertainty-calibrated risk prediction for cardiovascular-kidney-liver-metabolic disease?

Population

49,312 UK Biobank participants with proteomic profiling

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

median 12.3-year

Authors

MXManrong XuLGLuqin GanWCWENTAO CAO

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Overview

Integrating clinical and proteomic data with machine learning provides accurate, uncertainty-calibrated risk estimates for cardiovascular-kidney-liver-metabolic disease.

Key Points

  • The study aims to develop a risk prediction framework for cardiovascular-kidney-liver-metabolic disease using clinical biomarkers and plasma proteomics, focusing on uncertainty calibration.
  • Analyzed 49,312 UK Biobank participants with proteomic profiling
  • Used an 80/20 stratified split and cross-validated random forest to select predictors
  • Employed J+aB conformal inference for uncertainty-calibrated risk prediction and Cox models for hazard ratios.
  • 9,787 participants developed CKLM over a median follow-up of 12.3 years.
  • Final model achieved AUC of 0.78 and average precision of 0.52, with consistent performance across demographics.
  • Key clinical predictors included HbA1c and cystatin C; top proteomic predictors included GDF15 and HAVCR1.

Structured PICO

Does integrating clinical biomarkers and plasma proteomics improve uncertainty-calibrated risk prediction for cardiovascular-kidney-liver-metabolic disease?

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Population
49,312 UK Biobank participants with proteomic profiling
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Intervention
Risk prediction framework integrating clinical biomarkers and large-scale plasma proteomics using machine learning with conformal inference
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Outcome
First occurrence of chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver diseasecomposite

Integrating clinical and proteomic data with machine learning provides accurate, uncertainty-calibrated risk estimates for cardiovascular-kidney-liver-metabolic disease.

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Xu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a250bca7def13d035e1bd10https://doi.org/10.2337/db26-2247-p
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