A Knowledge Graph of Mechanistic Associations Between COVID-19, Diabetes Mellitus, and Chronic Kidney Disease

Michael Barrett, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Ali Daowd, Samina Abidi

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Abstract

We present an automated knowledge synthesis and discovery framework to analyze published literature to identify and represent underlying mechanistic associations that aggravate chronic conditions due to COVID-19. Our literature-based discovery approach integrates text mining, knowledge graphs and medical ontologies to discover hidden and previously unknown pathophysiologic relations, dispersed across multiple public literature databases, between COVID-19 and chronic disease mechanisms. We applied our approach to discover mechanistic associations between COVID-19 and chronic conditions-i.e. diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease-to understand the long-term impact of COVID-19 on patients with chronic diseases. We found several gene-disease associations that could help identify mechanisms driving poor outcomes for COVID-19 patients with underlying conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMEDINFO 2021
Subtitle of host publicationOne World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
EditorsPaula Otero, Philip Scott, Susan Z. Martin, Elaine Huesing
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages304-308
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781643682648
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 6 2022
Event18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Oct 2 2021Oct 4 2021

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume290
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/2/2110/4/21

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

PubMed: MeSH publication types

  • Journal Article

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