“…Hence, the most common structural features used were age, gender, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, alcohol consumption, history of CVD, body mass index (BMI), and blood sugar. Four studies used forward/backward eliminations, [31][32][33][34] six studies used principal component analysis (PCA), 23,24,[35][36][37][38] four studies used information gain, 28,[38][39][40] and three studies used the Chi-Square test to select the relevant risk factors or features 27,41,42 ; and the rest used various methods, e.g., correlation, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), specific algorithm, and medical knowledge from standard guidelines, etcetera.…”