AENLR	Adaptive elastic logistic net regression
ANFIS	Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system
ANN	Artificial neural network
ANOVA	Analysis of variance
AI	Artificial intelligence
BFG	Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno quasi-Newton back propagation
BMI	Body mass index
BPML	Backpropagation multiple layer
BPNN	Back propagation in neural network
BR	Bayesian regularization
CVD	Cardiovascular disease
DF	Desirability function
DP	Differential probability
DT	Decision trees
ECG	Electrocardiogram
EEG	Electroencephalogram
FFB	Feed forward back propagation
FIS	Fuzzy inference system
HbA1c	Glycated hemoglobin
HDL	High density lipoprotein
kNN	k-nearest neighbor
LDA	Linear discriminant analysis
LDL	Low density lipoprotein
LM	Levenberg–Marquardt
MAE	Mean absolute error
MARS	Multivariate adaptive regression splines
MBE	Mean bias error
ME	Mean error
MESA	Multiple ethnic studies of atherosclerosis
MF	Membership functions
ML	Machine learning
NB	Naive Bayes
NSE	Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency
PMH	Past medical history
QDA	Quadratic discriminant analysis
RBC	Red blood cell
RBFNN	Radial basis functions neural networks
RSM	Response surface methodology
RMSE	Root of the mean square error
SCG	Scaled conjugate gradient
SD	Standard deviation
SF	Sensitivity factor
SS	Sum of squares
ST	Subject to
SVM	Support vector machines
SVR	Support vector regression
WHO	World Health Organization