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Area of Science:

  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Computational Biology
  • Population Health

Background:

  • Chronic stress links psychosocial factors to health via physiological dysregulation.
  • Current identification methods are invasive or resource-intensive.
  • Scalable, non-invasive screening is needed for early detection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Evaluate high-dimensional psychometric data for non-invasive screening of physiological dysregulation.
  • Develop a framework for scalable population health tools from longitudinal data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized longitudinal data from Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Waves 2 and 3.
  • Defined physiological targets across inflammatory, metabolic, and neuroendocrine domains using allostatic load.
  • Employed a teacher-ranking-pruning-student pipeline for dimensionality reduction and knowledge distillation.

Main Results:

  • Reduced predictor dimensionality significantly without performance loss.
  • Achieved area under the receiver operating characteristic curve up to 0.78.
  • Demonstrated substantial precision-recall lift over baseline prevalence.

Conclusions:

  • Psychometric data can support scalable, non-invasive screening for latent physiological dysregulation.
  • The developed framework generalizes longitudinal data into deployable population health tools.
  • Enables population-level health screening using only survey data at inference.