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ArticlePLoS computational biology2021

Machine learning liver-injuring drug interactions with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) from a retrospective electronic health record (EHR) cohort.

Arghya Datta, Noah R Flynn, Dustyn A Barnette, Keith F Woeltje, Grover P Miller, S Joshua Swamidass

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Arghya DattaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-3543-3829
Noah R FlynnDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8542-8887
Dustyn A BarnetteDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-5048-2982
Keith F WoeltjeDepartment of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-6385-3970
Grover P MillerDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America.
S Joshua SwamidassDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America.
Washington University in St. Louis · USUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences · USBJC HealthCare · US

Funding

Systematic Discovery of Bioactivation-Associated Structural AlertsR01GM140635 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MILLER, GROVER P, SWAMIDASS, SANJAY JOSHUA · 2020 to 2023
$1.5M
DATA AND TOOLS FOR MODELING METABOLISM AND REACTIVITYR01LM012222 · NLM · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MILLER, GROVER P, SWAMIDASS, SANJAY JOSHUA · 2016 to 2019
$1.5M
Computationally modeling the impact of ontogeny on drug metabolic fateR01LM012482 · NLM · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI MILLER, GROVER P, SWAMIDASS, SANJAY JOSHUA · 2016 to 2019
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140635NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012222NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug-drug interactions account for up to 30% of adverse drug reactions. Increasing prevalence of electronic health records (EHRs) offers a unique opportunity to build machine learning algorithms to identify drug-drug interactions that drive adverse events. In this study, we investigated hospitalizations' data to study drug interactions with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) that result in drug-induced liver injury (DILI). We propose a logistic regression based machine learning algorithm that unearths several known interactions from an EHR dataset of about 400,000 hospitalization. Our proposed modeling framework is successful in detecting 87.5% of the positive controls, which are defined by drugs known to interact with diclofenac causing an increased risk of DILI, and correctly ranks aggregate risk of DILI for eight commonly prescribed NSAIDs. We found that our modeling framework is particularly successful in inferring associations of drug-drug interactions from relatively small EHR datasets. Furthermore, we have identified a novel and potentially hepatotoxic interaction that might occur during concomitant use of meloxicam and esomeprazole, which are commonly prescribed together to allay NSAID-induced gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Empirically, we validate our approach against prior methods for signal detection on EHR datasets, in which our proposed approach outperforms all the compared methods across most metrics, such as area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) and area under the precision-recall curve (AUPRC).

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Chemical and Drug Induced Liver InjuryDrug InteractionsMachine LearningAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAlgorithmsAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalComputational BiologyElectronic Health RecordsFemaleHumansLiverMaleMiddle AgedAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal

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PMID34228716
PMCPMC8284671
OpenAlexW3179358925

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