LiHua Xu , YanYan Wei , XiaoChen Tang , ZhengHui Yi , XiaoHua Liu , HaiChun Liu , ZiXuan Wang , Tao Chen , Jin Gao , Qiang Hu , LingYun Zeng , ChunBo Li , JiJun Wang , TianHong Zhang
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Predictive role of erythrocyte fatty acids in conversion to psychosis: a longitudinal study of clinical high-risk individuals
Introduction
Fatty acid (FA) alterations are associated in patients with psychosis. This study aimed to investigate the role of FAs in predicting the conversion to psychosis in individuals at clinical high-risk (CHR) and to distinguish CHR individuals from healthy controls (HC).
Materials and methods
A three-year longitudinal study was conducted involving 67 CHR individuals and 25 HC participants. Comprehensive erythrocyte FA profiles were obtained from gas chromatography analysis at baseline, measuring 17 different FAs. Participants were followed for three years to determine outcomes, categorizing CHR individuals into converters to psychosis (CHR-C) and non-converters (CHR-NC). We employed LASSO regression models to identify key predictors for CHR-C from CHR and to distinguish CHR from HC. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were performed to evaluate the models' predictive and discriminative abilities. Significant differences in FA profiles were observed among HC, CHR-C, and CHR-NC groups.
Results
CHR-C individuals exhibited higher levels of Eicosenoic acid(p = 0.016), Linoleic acid(p = 0.009), Eicosadienoic acid(p = 0.035) and Arachidonic acid(p = 0.037) compared to CHR-NC, whereas CHR individuals showed elevated levels of Palmitoleic acid(p = 0.002), Palmitic acid(p = 0.012), Eicosapentaenoic acid(p = 0.019) and Oleic acid(p = 0.039) compared to HC. The LASSO model identified key sociodemographic and FA predictors, including age, education, and specific FAs, for distinguishing CHR from HC, demonstrating high discriminative ability with an area under the ROC curve(AUC) of 0.894. For predicting CHR-C, the model highlighted gender and specific ω-6 FAs as potential predictors, with an AUC of 0.801.
Discussion
Our findings reveal distinct FA profiles among HC, CHR-C, and CHR-NC groups and identify key predictors for psychosis conversion and CHR status. These results underscore the significance of FAs in the various stages of psychosis development.