Competing Risks Model in Early Screening for Preeclampsia by Biophysical and Biochemical Markers

To develop models for prediction of preeclampsia (PE) based on maternal characteristics, biophysical and biochemical markers at 11-13 weeks' gestation in which the gestation at the time of delivery for PE is treated as a continuous variable.

This was a screening study of singleton pregnancies at 11-13 weeks including 1,426 (2.4%) that subsequently developed PE and 57,458 that were unaffected by PE. We developed a survival time model for the time of delivery for PE in which Bayes' theorem was used to combine the prior information from maternal characteristics with uterine artery pulsatility index (PI), mean arterial pressure (MAP), serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) and placental growth factor (PLGF) multiple of the median (MoM) values.