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Table 2 The 15 most discriminative features (with the largest importance scores)

From: Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with metabolic-associated fatty liver disease: a machine learning approach

Parameter

Importance score

Spearman’s (r)

p-value

Hypercholesterolemia

15.96

0.38

 < 0.0001

Plaque score L

12.68

0.41

 < 0.0001

Plaque score R

10.94

0.38

 < 0.0001

Duration of T2DM

10.65

0.32

 < 0.0001

Plaque area R

10.00

0.34

 < 0.0001

Age

8.60

0.37

 < 0.0001

Plaque area L

8.36

0.35

 < 0.0001

Betabloker

7.66

0.25

0.0004

T2DM

7.08

0.24

0.0008

Hypertension

6.83

0.24

0.0010

cfPWV

6.64

0.28

 < 0.0001

ALT

4.69

–0.15

0.0329

eGFR

3.51

–0.28

 < 0.0001

HbA1c

3.19

0.22

0.0025

Obesity

3.17

–0.15

0.0421

  1. We report the two-tailed p-values for nonparametric Spearman correlation to verify if the correlation is due to random sampling (if p < 0.05 this hypothesis can be rejected)
  2. T2DM type 2 diabetes mellitus, cfPWV carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, ALT alanine aminotransferase, eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate, HbA1c hemoglobin A1c