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Haoran Chen1, Min Wang1, Jiao Li1
1Institute of Medical Information/Library, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100020, China.
Background:
Machine learning models have promising applications in capturing the complex relationship between mixtures of exposures and outcomes.
Objective:
Our study aimed at introducing an explainable machine learning (EML) model to assess the association between metal mixtures with potentially opposing renal effects and renal function in middle-aged and older adults.
Methods:
This study extracted data from two cycle years of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Participants aged 45 years or older with complete data on six metals (lead, cadmium, manganese, mercury, and selenium) and related covariates were enrolled. The EML model was developed by the optimized machine learning model together with Shapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to assess the chronic kidney disease (CKD) risk with metal mixtures. The results from EML were further compared in detail with multiple logistic regression (MLR) and Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR).
Results:
After adjusting for included covariates, MLR pointed out the lead and arsenic were generally positively associated with CKD, but manganese had a negative association. In the BKMR analysis, each metal was found to have a non-linear association with the risk of CKD, and interactions can exist between metals, especially for arsenic and lead. The EML ranked the feature importance: lead, manganese, arsenic and selenium were close behind in importance after gender, age or BMI for participants with CKD. Strong interactions between mercury and lead, manganese and cadmium and arsenic and manganese were identified by partial dependence plot (PDP) of SHAP and bivariate exposure-response effect plots of BKMR. The EML model determined the "trigger point" at which the risk of CKD abruptly changed.
Conclusion:
Co-exposure to metals with different nephrotoxicity could have different joint association with renal function, and EML can be a powerful method for studying complex exposure mixtures.
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