ACC	American College of Cardiology
AECRS	AtheroEdge Composite Risk Score
AGE	Advance Glycation End Products
AHA	American Heart Association
AHEAD	Action for Health in Diabetes
AI	Artificial Intelligence
ASCVD	Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
CAD	Coronary Artery Disease
CAPB	Coronary Artery Plaque Burden
CCA	Common Carotid Artery
CHF	Congestive Heart Failure
CI	Confidence Interval
cIMT	Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
CT	Computerized Tomography
CVA	Cerebrovascular Accident
CVD	Cardiovascular disease
CVE	Cardiovascular Events
CCVRC	Conventional Cardiovascular Risk Calculator
DL	Deep Learning
DM	Diabetes Mellitus
DME	Diabetic Macular Edema
DR	Diabetic Retinopathy
EML	Ensemble Machine Learning
FA	Fluorescein Angiography
FRS	Framingham Risk Score
GLS	Global Longitudinal Strain
HR	Hazard Ratio
ICA	Internal carotid artery
ICGA	Indocyanine Green Angiography
IMTV	Intima-Media Thickness Variability
IVUS	Intravascular Ultrasound
MA	Macular Edema
MI	Myocardial Infarction
ML	Machine Learning
MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MVD	Microvascular Disease
NICE	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NPDR	Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
OCT	Optical Coherence Tomography
OpA	Ophthalmic artery
OR	Odds Ratio
PCRE	Pooled cohort risk equation
PDR	Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
PET	Positron Emission Tomography
PKC	Protein Kinase C
PVD	Peripheral Vascular Disease
RRS	Reynold Risk Score
T2DM	Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
TIR	Time in Range
UKPDS	UK Prospective Diabetes Score
US	Ultrasound
UTC	Ultrasound-based Tissue characterization
COVID-19	Coronavirus-2019
WHO	World Health Organization