The Application of Machine Learning in Warfarin Dose Precision for Diabetic Patients Treated with Statins: A Comparative Study.

PURPOSE

To evaluate the impact of statin therapy on warfarin dose requirements in diabetic patients and to assess the performance of various machine learning algorithms in predicting optimal warfarin dosing.

METHODS

The datasets available for total participants of 628 (216 diabetics and 412 non-diabetic patients) were analyzed. We categorized the patients according to height, weight, gender, race, and age, plasma international normalized ratio (INR) on reported therapeutic dose of warfarin, target INR, warfarin dose, statin therapy, and indications for warfarin. Various models were tested on data of patients from the International Warfarin Pharmacogenetics Consortium (IWPC). Data preprocessing involves structuring and handling missing values. Six predictive models, including least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), support vector regression (SVR), linear regression (LR), decision tree, and random forest (RF), were employed in predicting optimal warfarin dosage. The best dose for each patient will be predicted using one of the six regression models.

RESULTS

This comparative study showed that the mean (and the standard deviation) of warfarin dose for diabetic and non-diabetic patients were 38.73 (15.37) and 34.50 (18.27) mg per week, respectively. Furthermore, the impact of various statin they use is considered and patient undergoing atorvastatin and rosuvastatin therapy against the necessity of high dose warfarin if the diabetic patients use lovastatin and fluvastatin.

CONCLUSION

Diabetic patients under statin therapy, considering the specific statin used, require different warfarin dose. Through the application of advanced machine learning, models as dosing predictors may attenuate the adverse effects of warfarin.