In the initial feature selection step, we removed the following features which were above the P < 0.10 threshold: Townsend deprivation score, ethnicity, platelets, apolipoprotein B, low density lipoprotein, total protein, systolic BP, statin use, disease history for CVD, IBD, liver-biliary disease and diabetes, education level, sleep duration, mean corpuscular volume, neutrophils, eosinophils, nucleated RBCs, albumin, ALP, AST, glucose, HbA1C, and phosphate. Here, ALB is linked to diabetes mellitus.