ICTR at Medical Grand Rounds: Cumulative Risk Factor Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease

Abstract

Domanski discusses a paper on the Association of Incident Cardiovascular Disease with Time Course and Cumulative Exposure to Multiple Risk Factors. Utilizing data from the Cardia study, a long-term study with 35 years of follow-up, to understand the impact of multiple risk factors on cardiovascular disease, the analysis involves a knowledge-guided machine learning procedure, focusing on influential risk predictors and dealing with highly correlated predictors.