The UK-PBC risk scores: Derivation and validation of a scoring system for long-term prediction of end-stage liver disease in primary biliary cholangitis

Marco Carbone, Stephen J. Sharp, Steve Flack, Dimitrios Paximadas, Kelly Spiess, Carolyn Adgey, Laura Griffiths, Reyna Lim, Paul Trembling, Kate Williamson, Nick J. Wareham, Mark Aldersley, Andrew Bathgate, Andrew K. Burroughs, Michael A. Heneghan, James M. Neuberger, Douglas Thorburn, Gideon M. Hirschfield, Heather J. Cordell, Graeme J. AlexanderDavid E.J. Jones, Richard N. Sandford, George F. Mells, David Jones, John Kirby, Graeme Alexander, Richard Sandford, Simon Taylor-Robinson, Chin Lye Ch'ng, Mesbah Rahman, Tom Yapp, Richard Sturgess, Christopher Healey, Marek Czajkowski, Anton Gunasekera, Pranab Gyawali, Purushothaman Premchand, Kapil Kapur, Richard Marley, Graham Foster, Alan Watson, Aruna Dias, Javaid Subhani, Rory Harvey, Roger McCorry, David Ramanaden, Jaber Gasem, Richard Evans, Thiriloganathan Mathialahan, Christopher Shorrock, George Lipscomb, Paul Southern, Jeremy Tibble, David Gorard, Altaf Palegwala, Susan Jones, Mohamed Dawwas, Sunil Dolwani, Martin Prince, Matthew Foxton, David Elphick, Harriet Mitchison, Ian Gooding, Mazn Karmo, Sushma Saksena, Mike Mendall, Minesh Patel, Roland Ede, Andrew Austin, Joanna Sayer, Lorraine Hankey, Christopher Hovell, Neil Fisher, Martyn Carter, Konrad Koss, Andrzej Piotrowicz, Charles Grimley, David Neal, Guan Lim, Sass Levi, Aftab Ala, Andrea Broad, Athar Saeed, Gordon Wood, Jonathan Brown, Mark Wilkinson, Harriet Gordon, John Ramage, Jo Ridpath, Theodore Ngatchu, Bob Grover, Syed Shaukat, Ray Shidrawi, George Abouda, Faiz Ali, Ian Rees, Imroz Salam, Mark Narain, Ashley Brown, Simon Williams, Leonie Grellier, Paul Banim, Andrew Chilton, Howard Curtis, Markus Gess, Ian Drake, Mervyn Davies, Rebecca Jones, Alastair McNair, Raj Srirajaskanthan, Maxton Pitcher, Sambit Sen, George Bird, Adrian Barnardo, Paul Kitchen, Kevin Yoong, Oza Chirag, Nurani Sivaramakrishnan, George MacFaul, Amir Shah, Chris Evans, Subrata Saha, Katharine Pollock, Peter Bramley, Ashis Mukhopadhya, Andrew Fraser, Peter Mills, Christopher Shallcross, Stewart Campbell, Alan Shepherd, John Dillon, Simon Rushbrook, Robert Przemioslo, Christopher Macdonald, Jane Metcalf, Udi Shmueli, Andrew Davis, Asifabbas Naqvi, Tom Lee, Stephen D. Ryder, Jane Collier, Howard Klass, Mary Ninkovic, Matthew Cramp, Nicholas Sharer, Richard Aspinall, Patrick Goggin, Deb Ghosh, Andrew Douds, Barbara Hoeroldt, Jonathan Booth, Earl Williams, Hyder Hussaini, William Stableforth, Reuben Ayres, Eileen Marshall, Steven Mann, Martin Lombard, Paul Richardson, Imran Patanwala, Julia Maltby, Matthew Brookes, Ray Mathew, Samir Vyas, Saket Singhal, Dermot Gleeson, Sharat Misra, Jeff Butterworth, Keith George, Tim Harding, Andrew Douglass, Simon Panter, Jeremy Shearman, Gary Bray, Graham Butcher, Daniel Forton, John Mclindon, Debashis Das, Matthew Cowan, Gregory Whatley, Aditya Mandal, Hemant Gupta, Pradeep Sanghi, Sanjiv Jain, Steve Pereira, Geeta Prasad, Gill Watts, Mark Wright, Fiona Gordon, Esther Unitt, Allister Grant, Toby Delahooke, Andrew Higham, Alison Brind, Mark Cox, Subramaniam Ramakrishnan, Alistair King, Carole Collins, Simon Whalley, Andy Li, Jocelyn Fraser, Andrew Bell, Voi Shim Wong, Amit Singhal, Ian Gee, Yeng Ang, Rupert Ransford, James Gotto, Charles Millson, Jane Bowles, Caradog Thomas, Melanie Harrison, Roman Galaska, Jennie Kendall, Jessica Whiteman, Caroline Lawlor, Catherine Gray, Keith Elliott, Caroline Mulvaney-Jones, Lucie Hobson, Greta Van Duyvenvoorde, Alison Loftus, Katie Seward, Ruth Penn, Jane Maiden, Rose Damant, Janeane Hails, Rebecca Cloudsdale, Valeria Silvestre, Sue Glenn, Eleanor Dungca, Natalie Wheatley, Helen Doyle, Melanie Kent, Caroline Hamilton, Delyth Braim, Helen Wooldridge, Rachel Abrahams, Alison Paton, Nicola Lancaster, Andrew Gibbins, Karen Hogben, Phillipa Desousa, Florin Muscariu, Janine Musselwhite, Alexandra McKay, Lai Ting Tan, Carole Foale, Jacqueline Brighton, Kerry Flahive, Estelle Nambela, Paula Townshend, Chris Ford, Sophie Holder, Caroline Palmer, James Featherstone, Mariam Nasseri, Joy Sadeghian, Bronwen Williams, Carol Thomas, Sally Ann Rolls, Abigail Hynes, Claire Duggan, Sarah Jones, Mary Crossey, Glynis Stansfield, Carolyn MacNicol, Joy Wilkins, Elva Wilhelmsen, Parizade Raymode, Hye Jeong Lee, Emma Durant, Rebecca Bishop, Noma Ncube, Sherill Tripoli, Rebecca Casey, Caroline Cowley, Richard Miller, Kathryn Houghton, Samantha Ducker, Fiona Wright, Bridget Bird, Gwen Baxter, Janie Keggans, Maggie Hughes, Emma Grieve, Karin Young, Williams D. Williams, Kate Ocker, Frances Hines, Kirsty Martin, Caron Innes, Talal Valliani, Helen Fairlamb, Sarah Thornthwaite, Anne Eastick, Elizabeth Tanqueray, Jennifer Morrison, Becky Holbrook, Julie Browning, Kirsten Walker, Susan Congreave, Juliette Verheyden, Susan Slininger, Lizzie Stafford, O'Donnell Denise O'Donnell, Mark Ainsworth, Susan Lord, Linda Kent, Linda March, Christine Dickson, Diane Simpson, Beverley Longhurst, Maria Hayes, Ervin Shpuza, Nikki White, Sarah Besley, Sallyanne Pearson, Alice Wright, Linda Jones, Emma Gunter, Hannah Dewhurst, Anna Fouracres, Liz Farrington, Lyn Graves, Suzie Marriott, Marina Leoni, David Tyrer, Kate Martin, Lola Dali-kemmery, Victoria Lambourne, Marie Green, Dawn Sirdefield, Kelly Amor, Julie Colley, Bal Shinder, Jayne Jones, Marisa Mills, Mandy Carnahan, Natalie Taylor, Kerenza Boulton, Julie Tregonning, Carly Brown, Gayle Clifford, Emily Archer, Maria Hamilton, Janette Curtis, Tracey Shewan, Sue Walsh, Karen Warner, Kimberley Netherton, Mcdonald Mupudzi, Bridget Gunson, Jane Gitahi, Denise Gocher, Sally Batham, Hilary Pateman, Senayon Desmennu, Jill Conder, Darren Clement, Susan Gallagher, Jacky Orpe, Pui Ching Chan, Lynn Currie, O'Donohoe Lynn O'Donohoe, Metod Oblak, Lisa Morgan, Marie Quinn, Isobel Amey, Yolanda Baird, Donna Cotterill, Lourdes Cumlat, Louise Winter, Sandra Greer, Katie Spurdle, Joanna Allison, Simon Dyer, Helen Sweeting, Jean Kordul

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Abstract

The biochemical response to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA)-so-called "treatment response"-strongly predicts long-term outcome in primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). Several long-term prognostic models based solely on the treatment response have been developed that are widely used to risk stratify PBC patients and guide their management. However, they do not take other prognostic variables into account, such as the stage of the liver disease. We sought to improve existing long-term prognostic models of PBC using data from the UK-PBC Research Cohort. We performed Cox's proportional hazards regression analysis of diverse explanatory variables in a derivation cohort of 1,916 UDCA-treated participants. We used nonautomatic backward selection to derive the best-fitting Cox model, from which we derived a multivariable fractional polynomial model. We combined linear predictors and baseline survivor functions in equations to score the risk of a liver transplant or liver-related death occurring within 5, 10, or 15 years. We validated these risk scores in an independent cohort of 1,249 UDCA-treated participants. The best-fitting model consisted of the baseline albumin and platelet count, as well as the bilirubin, transaminases, and alkaline phosphatase, after 12 months of UDCA. In the validation cohort, the 5-, 10-, and 15-year risk scores were highly accurate (areas under the curve: >0.90). Conclusions: The prognosis of PBC patients can be accurately evaluated using the UK-PBC risk scores. They may be used to identify high-risk patients for closer monitoring and second-line therapies, as well as low-risk patients who could potentially be followed up in primary care.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)930-950
Number of pages21
JournalHepatology
Volume63
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2016
Externally publishedYes

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