Author:
Quiñones Sarah,Goyal Aditya,Ahmed Zia U.
Abstract
AbstractType 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) prevalence in the United States varies substantially across spatial and temporal scales, attributable to variations of socioeconomic and lifestyle risk factors. Understanding these variations in risk factors contributions to T2D would be of great benefit to intervention and treatment approaches to reduce or prevent T2D. Geographically-weighted random forest (GW-RF), a tree-based non-parametric machine learning model, may help explore and visualize the relationships between T2D and risk factors at the county-level. GW-RF outputs are compared to global (RF and OLS) and local (GW-OLS) models between the years of 2013–2017 using low education, poverty, obesity, physical inactivity, access to exercise, and food environment as inputs. Our results indicate that a non-parametric GW-RF model shows a high potential for explaining spatial heterogeneity of, and predicting, T2D prevalence over traditional local and global models when inputting six major risk factors. Some of these predictions, however, are marginal. These findings of spatial heterogeneity using GW-RF demonstrate the need to consider local factors in prevention approaches. Spatial analysis of T2D and associated risk factor prevalence offers useful information for targeting the geographic area for prevention and disease interventions.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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