Taiwo Samson Adeyemo

PREDICTING HEART DISEASE RISK FROM CLINICAL VARIABLES: A GENDER-SPECIFIC MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS AMONG HIGH-CHOLESTEROL PATIENTS

Male sex was a statistically significant independent predictor of heart disease after controlling for other clinical variables and the findings support sex-specific screening and preventive strategies for high-cholesterol male patients and demonstrate the value of interpretable machine learning models for clinical decision support.