In this study, the extent to which different emotions of pregnant women can be predicted based on heart rate-relevant information as indicators of autonomic nervous system functioning was explored using various machine learning algorithms. Nine heart rate-relevant autonomic system indicators, including the coefficient of variation R-R interval (CVRR), standard deviation of all NN intervals (SDNN), and square root of the mean squared differences of successive NN intervals (RMSSD), were measured using a heart rate monitor (MyBeat) and four different emotions including “happy,” as a positive emotion and “anxiety,” “sad,” “frustrated,” as negative emotions were self-recorded on a smartphone application, during 1 week starting from 23rd to 32nd weeks of pregnancy from 85 pregnant women. The k-nearest neighbor (k-NN), support vector machine (SVM), logistic regression (LR), random forest (RF), naïve bayes (NB), decision tree (DT), gradient boosting trees (GBT), stochastic gradient descent (SGD), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), and artificial neural network (ANN) machine learning methods were applied to predict the four different emotions based on the heart rate-relevant information. To predict four different emotions, RF also showed a modest area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC) of 0.70. CVRR, RMSSD, SDNN, high frequency (HF), and low frequency (LF) mostly contributed to the predictions. GBT displayed the second highest AUC (0.69). Comprehensive analyses revealed the benefits of the prediction accuracy of the RF and GBT methods and were beneficial to establish models to predict emotions based on autonomic nervous system indicators. The results implicated SDNN, RMSSD, CVRR, LF, and HF as important parameters for the predictions.
Although postpartum depression (PPD) has been identified as a severe public health problem, its genetic basis has yet to be elucidated. Therefore, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify the loci significantly associated with PPD. The first and second cohorts (n = 9,260 and n = 8,582 perinatal women enrolled in the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project [TMM]), and the third cohort (n = 997), recruited at Nagoya University, were subjected to genotyping. PPD was defined based on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale one month after delivery. Logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate genetic associations with PPD after adjusting for the most influential confounders, including the number of deliveries and the number of family members living together. A meta-analysis of GWAS results from the three cohorts indicated the following loci as significantly associated with PPD (P < 5´10–8): rs377546683 at DAB1 (1p32.2), rs11940752 near UGT8 (4q26), rs141172317, rs117928019, rs76631412, rs118131805 at DOCK2 (5q35.1), rs188907279 near ZNF572 (8q24.13), rs504378, rs690150, rs491868, rs689917, rs474978, rs690118, rs690253 near DIRAS2 (9q22.2), rs1435984417 at ZNF618 (9q31.3), rs57705782 near PTPRM (18p11.23), and rs185293917 near PDGFB (22q13.1). Pathway analyses indicated that SNPs suggestively associated with PPD were mostly over-represented in categories including long-term depression, GnRH signaling, Glutamatergic synapse, Oxytocin signaling, and Rap1 signaling. Thus, the current GWAS study identified eight loci significantly associated with PPD, which may enlighten the genetic structure underlying the pathogenesis of PPD.
IntroductionPerinatal women tend to have difficulties with sleep along with autonomic characteristics. This study aimed to identify a machine learning algorithm capable of achieving high accuracy in predicting sleep–wake conditions and differentiating between the wake conditions before and after sleep during pregnancy based on heart rate variability (HRV).MethodsNine HRV indicators (features) and sleep–wake conditions of 154 pregnant women were measured for 1 week, from the 23rd to the 32nd weeks of pregnancy. Ten machine learning and three deep learning methods were applied to predict three types of sleep–wake conditions (wake, shallow sleep, and deep sleep). In addition, the prediction of four conditions, in which the wake conditions before and after sleep were differentiated—shallow sleep, deep sleep, and the two types of wake conditions—was also tested.Results and DiscussionIn the test for predicting three types of sleep–wake conditions, most of the algorithms, except for Naïve Bayes, showed higher areas under the curve (AUCs; 0.82–0.88) and accuracy (0.78–0.81). The test using four types of sleep–wake conditions with differentiation between the wake conditions before and after sleep also resulted in successful prediction by the gated recurrent unit with the highest AUC (0.86) and accuracy (0.79). Among the nine features, seven made major contributions to predicting sleep–wake conditions. Among the seven features, “the number of interval differences of successive RR intervals greater than 50 ms (NN50)” and “the proportion dividing NN50 by the total number of RR intervals (pNN50)” were useful to predict sleep–wake conditions unique to pregnancy. These findings suggest alterations in the vagal tone system specific to pregnancy.
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