Discovery of a preliminary urinary metabolite panel for Parkinson’s disease: a pilot study using paired patient-spouse samples and machine learning consensus - Scorecard - MDSpire

Discovery of a preliminary urinary metabolite panel for Parkinson’s disease: a pilot study using paired patient-spouse samples and machine learning consensus

  • By

  • Qian-Qian Chen

  • De-Hai Gou

  • Jin-Yu Huang

  • Zhen-Hua Mo

  • Xiao-Yong Guan

  • Jia-Ning Xu

  • June 9, 2026

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Clinical Scorecard: Identification of an Initial Urinary Metabolite Profile for Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Investigation Utilizing Paired Samples from Patients and Their Spouses with Machine Learning Techniques

At a Glance

CategoryDetail
ConditionParkinson's Disease
Key MechanismsUrinary metabolomics for biomarker discovery
Target PopulationPatients with Parkinson's Disease and their healthy spouses
Care SettingFirst Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China

Key Highlights

  • Pilot study utilizing matched-pair cohort design
  • Five-metabolite panel identified with promising discriminative performance (AUC > 0.95)
  • Focus on non-invasive urinary biomarkers for Parkinson's Disease
  • Study emphasizes the need for future validation in larger cohorts
  • Exploratory nature of findings with no validated diagnostic tool established

Guideline-Based Recommendations

Diagnosis

  • Clinical diagnosis according to the Movement Disorder Society (MDS) Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Parkinson’s Disease (2015)

Management

    Monitoring & Follow-up

      Risks

        Patient & Prescribing Data

        Patients clinically diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and their healthy spouses

        No drug washout performed; samples collected before first daily medication

        Clinical Best Practices

        • Utilize matched-pair design to control for environmental and lifestyle factors
        • Employ untargeted LC–MS metabolomics for comprehensive metabolite profiling
        • Ensure ethical approval and informed consent for participant involvement

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