Cardiovascular Classification in Middle-Aged and Elderly CKD Patients: A Machine Learning Approach in China and the United States.
BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) drives mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Conventional risk tools underperform in CKD, and few machine learning (ML) models undergo cross-national validation. We developed interpretable ML models for classifying CVD amongst Chinese and US middle-aged and elderly...