CVD	Cardiovascular diseases
NGC	Neuroimmune guidance cue
BMI	Body mass index
MI	Myocardial infarction
PTCA	Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
CABG	Coronary artery bypass graft
NYHA	New York Heart Association
Logit	Boosted Logistic Regression
Lda	Linear Discriminant Analysis
Pls	Partial Least Squares
Svm	Support Vector Machines
Pam	Nearest Shrunken Centroids
Mda	Mixture Discriminant Analysis
Fda	Flexible Discriminant Analysis
Knn	k-Nearest Neighbors
Nb	Naive Bayesian
BagCart	Bagged CART
Rf	Random Forest
Gbm	Random Forest
C5	Single C5.0 Tree
STEMI	ST-elevation myocardial infarction