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Clinical impact of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution on incident <a href="https://www.docwirenews.com/condition-center/prevalence-and-risk-factors-of-left-atrial-thrombus-in-patients-with-atrial-fibrillation-and-lower-class-iia-recommendation-to-anticoagulants/">atrial fibrillation</a> (AF) had not been well studied. We used integrated machine learning (ML) to build several incident AF prediction models that include average hourly measurements of PM2.5&nbsp;for the 432,587 subjects of Korean general population. We compared these incident AF prediction models using c-index, net reclassification improvement index (NRI), and integrated discrimination improvement index (IDI). ML using the boosted ensemble method exhibited a higher c-index (0.845 [0.837-0.853]) than existing traditional regression models using CHA2DS2-VASc (0.654 [0.646-0.661]), CHADS2&nbsp;(0.652 [0.646-0.657]), or HATCH (0.669 [0.661-0.676]) scores (each p &lt; 0.001) for predicting incident AF.As feature selection algorithms identified PM2.5&nbsp;as a highly important variable, we applied PM2.5&nbsp;for predicting incident AF and constructed scoring systems. The prediction performances significantly increased compared with models without PM2.5&nbsp;(c-indices: boosted ensemble ML, 0.954 [0.949-0.959]; PM-CHA2DS2-VASc, 0.859 [0.848-0.870]; PM-CHADS2, 0.823 [0.810-0.836]; or PM-HATCH score, 0.849 [0.837-0.860]; each interaction, p &lt; 0.001; NRI and IDI were also positive). ML combining readily available clinical variables and PM2.5&nbsp;data was found to predict incident AF better than models without PM2.5&nbsp;or even established risk prediction approaches in the general population exposed to high air pollution levels.

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Long-term PM 2.5 Exposure and the Clinical Application of Machine Learning for Predicting Incident Atrial Fibrillation

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Clinical impact of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution on incident atrial fibrillation (AF) had not been well studied. We used integrated machine learning (ML) to ...

Long-term PM 2.5 Exposure and the Clinical Application of Machine Learning for Predicting Incident

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