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. 2015 Sep 8;16(9):21520–21538. doi: 10.3390/ijms160921520

Table 2.

Urine metabolite multivariate models predicting preeclampsia and/or gestational hypertension a.

Hypertensive Pregnancy Outcome Accuracy (%) Specificity (%) Sensitivity (%) Sensitivity at 10% FPR (%) p-Value b Indicated Metabolites c
Preeclampsia (n = 26) vs. no preeclampsia (n = 561)
Full urine spectra 61.4 65.3 57.5 11.3 <0.01 ↑ Crn, Gly, α-HIB, Hist, DMA
↓ Hipp, Lac/Thr, ProlB
VIP ≥ 1 variables 68.2 60.1 76.3 23.8 <0.01 ↑ Crn, Gly, α-HIB, Hist, DMA
↓ Hipp, Lac/Thr
CARS variables 70.8 74.2 67.5 51.3 <0.01 ↑ Gly, 4-DEA, DMA
↓ Hipp, Lac, Cre, ProlB
Gestational hypertension (n = 20) d vs. no gestational hypertension (n = 567)
Full urine spectra 59.1 68.2 50.0 11.7 <0.01 ↑ Crn, α-HIB, DMA
↓ Hipp, Lac/Thr, ProlB, Citrate
VIP ≥ 1 variables 63.7 65.7 61.7 16.7 0.01 ↑ Crn, α-HIB, DMA
↓ Hipp, Lac/Thr, ProlB, Citrate
CARS variables 63.8 89.3 38.3 40.0 0.04 ↑ DMA
↓ PAG, Ala
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension (n = 46) vs. normotensive (n = 541)
Full urine spectra 61.5 56.1 66.8 14.4 <0.01 ↑ Crn, α-HIB, DMA,
↓ Hipp, Lac/Thr, ProlB
↑ Crn, α-HIB, DMA
↓ Hipp, Lac/Thr, ProlB
VIP ≥ 1 variables 64.0 56.2 71.9 20.0 <0.01
CARS variables 66.4 75.9 56.9 36.9 <0.01 ↑ α-HIB, DMA
↓ Hipp, PAG, Lys, Ala

Abbreviations: 4-DEA, 4-deoxythreonic acid; α-HIB, α-hydroxyisobutyrate; Ala, alanine; Cre, creatine; Crn, creatinine; CARS, competitive adapted reweighted sampling; DMA, dimethylamine; FPR, false positive rate; Gly, glycine; Hipp, hippurate; Hist, histidine; Lac, lactate; Leu, leucine; PAG, phenylacetylglutamine; ProlB, proline betaine; Thr, threonine; VIP, variable importance in projection. a VIP or CARS variable selection was performed, and results were evaluated using accuracy, specificity and sensitivity from double cross validation; b Model validity was estimated by 100 permutation tests; c The metabolites are listed as increased (↑) or decreased (↓) in the hypertensive disease pregnancies compared to the pregnancies without the disease; d One urine sample was missing from the gestational hypertension cases.