## 2 Materials and Methods
### Workflow for Predicting Cardiovascular Diseases
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\begin{tabular}{l l|l|l} \hline \hline  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{**Feature**} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{**Description**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Categories**} \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{**Category**} & Age & Individual’s age & 16–29, 30–39, 40–49, 50–59, 60–69, NA \\  & Sex & Individual’s sex & Woman (W), Man (M), NA \\  & BMI \({}^{a}\) & Body mass index & HW, OBC-I, OBC-II, \\  & & & & OBC-III, OW, UW, NA \\  & & Education \({}^{b}\) & Education level achieved & U \(<4\)Y, U \(\geq 4\)Y, PS10Y, HS \(\geq 3\)Y, NA \\  & HC & Have cholesterol & Yes, No \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{**Category**} & Smoking \({}^{c}\) & Cigarette use & CD, FO, FD, CO, N, NA \\  & Snuff \({}^{c}\) & Snuff use & CD, FO, FD, CO, N, NA \\  & E-cigarette \({}^{c}\) & E-cigarette use & CD, FO, FD, CO, N, NA \\  & Alcohol & Alcohol consumption & Yes, No \\  & Alcohol freq. & Alcohol drink frequency & 2–3 p/w, 4 p/w, \(\leq\)1 p/m, 2–4 p/m, NA \\  & Alcohol units & \# units consumed & 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–9, \(\geq\)10, NA \\  & \(\geq\)6 units & \(\geq\)6 units of consumed alcohol & D, W, \(<\)M, M, N, NA \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{**Category**} & Strenuous PA & \# days of strenuous PA & 0, 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, NA \\  & Moderate PA & \# days of moderate PA & 0, 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, NA \\  & Walking & \# days of walking \(\geq\)10 min & 0, 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, NA \\  & Daily sitting & \# hours sitting on a weekday & 0–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–11, 12–14, \(\geq\)15, NA \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{**Category**} & Extra salt \({}^{d}\) & Freq. extra salt added to food & N, OCC, O, A, NA \\  & Sugary drinks \({}^{f}\) & \# sweetened drinks & 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, \(\geq\)7, NA \\  & Fruits/Berries \({}^{f}\) & Fruit servings and berries & 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, \(\geq\)5, NA \\  & Vegetables \({}^{f}\) & Lettuce and vegetable servings & 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, \(\geq\)5, NA \\  & Red meat \({}^{c}\) & \# consumed red meat & 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, \(\geq\)5, NA \\  & Other meat \({}^{c}\) & \# consumed processed meat & 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, \(\geq\)5, NA \\  & Fish \({}^{e}\) & \# consumed fish products & 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, \(\geq\)5, NA \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{**Category**} & House income & Gross household income & 5150 K, 150–350 K, 351–550 K, \\  & Household adult & \# household members \(\geq\) 18 years & 551–750 K, 751–1000 K, \(\geq\)1000 K, NA \\  & Household young & \# household members \(\leq\) 18 years & 0, 1, 2, 3, \(\geq\)4, NA \\ \hline \multicolumn{4}{l}{Description of categories. \({}^{a}\) For BMI: Underweight (UW), Healthy Weight (HW), Overweight (OW), and Obesity Class I (OBC-I), II (OBC-II), and III (OBC-III) \({}^{b}\) For education, Primary School up to 10 Years (PS10Y), High School (HS) minimum of 3 Years (HS \(\geq 37\)), less than 4 years (U \(<4\)Y) and 4 years or more of University (U) (U \(\geq 4\)Y). \({}^{c}\) For substance use: Currently Daily (CD), former occasional (FO), Former Daily (FD), Current Occasional (CO), and Never (N). \({}^{d}\) For consumption of \(\geq\) six units of alcohol: Daily (D), less than once a month (\(<\)M), Monthly (M), Weekly (W), and Never (N). \({}^{d}\) For extra salt: Always (A), Often (O), Occasionally (OCC), and Never (N). \({}^{e}\) For red meat, other meat, and fish, they were measured per week (p/w). \({}^{f}\) For fruit servings and berries, vegetables, and sugary drinks were measured per day (p/d). NA stands for Not Available.} \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Summary of the features and categories in the dataset.