Risk prediction score for severe high altitude illness: a cohort study
| Autor: | Murielle Letournel, Sylvie Bastuji-Garin, Jean-Paul Richalet, Florence Canoui-Poitrine, Philippe Larmignat, Kalaivani Veerabudun |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Science Altitude Sickness Bioinformatics Logistic regression Environmental Epidemiology Cohort Studies Risk Factors Internal medicine Medicine and Health Sciences medicine Chi-square test Humans Clinical Epidemiology Sports and Exercise Medicine Altitude sickness Prediction score Multidisciplinary business.industry Middle Aged Hypoxia (medical) Effects of high altitude on humans medicine.disease Epidemiological Methods and Statistics Population study Medicine Female medicine.symptom business Research Article Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 7, p e100642 (2014) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | BackgroundRisk prediction of acute mountain sickness, high altitude (HA) pulmonary or cerebral edema is currently based on clinical assessment. Our objective was to develop a risk prediction score of Severe High Altitude Illness (SHAI) combining clinical and physiological factors. Study population was 1017 sea-level subjects who performed a hypoxia exercise test before a stay at HA. The outcome was the occurrence of SHAI during HA exposure. Two scores were built, according to the presence (PRE, n = 537) or absence (ABS, n = 480) of previous experience at HA, using multivariate logistic regression. Calibration was evaluated by Hosmer-Lemeshow chisquare test and discrimination by Area Under ROC Curve (AUC) and Net Reclassification Index (NRI).ResultsThe score was a linear combination of history of SHAI, ventilatory and cardiac response to hypoxia at exercise, speed of ascent, desaturation during hypoxic exercise, history of migraine, geographical location, female sex, age under 46 and regular physical activity. In the PRE/ABS groups, the score ranged from 0 to 12/10, a cut-off of 5/5.5 gave a sensitivity of 87%/87% and a specificity of 82%/73%. Adding physiological variables via the hypoxic exercise test improved the discrimination ability of the models: AUC increased by 7% to 0.91 (95%CI: 0.87-0.93) and 17% to 0.89 (95%CI: 0.85-0.91), NRI was 30% and 54% in the PRE and ABS groups respectively. A score computed with ten clinical, environmental and physiological factors accurately predicted the risk of SHAI in a large cohort of sea-level residents visiting HA regions. |
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