Identification of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among Diabetes Patients using ontological Data Mining Techniques

Abdelaziz A. Abdelhamid^*1, Marwa M. Eid², Mostafa Abotaleb³, S. K. Towfek⁴

¹ Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences,

Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt

² Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Delta University for Science and Technology,

Mansoura 11152, Egypt

³ Department of System Programming, South Ural State University,

454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia

⁴Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Research Center, Blacksburg 24060,

Virginia, USA

Emails: abdelaziz@cis.asu.edu.eg; mmm@ieee.org; abotalebmostafa@bk.ru; sktowfek@jcsis.org

Abstract

Diabetes patients face a severe health cost from cardiovascular disease (CVD). Recognising the risk factors for CVD in this group of people is critical for developing effective preventative and management measures. In this study, we use an ontological data mining approach, LightGBM, to analyze a dataset of diabetes patients and investigate the risk variables that contribute to CVD. The association between diabetes and CVD is investigated, emphasising the increased risk that diabetes patients confront. We look into the demographics, health behaviors, and physiological indicators that influence the emergence of heart disease in this population. We use LightGBM to find complicated relationships and trends within the dataset, allowing us to identify critical risk variables. Our research contributes to the field by offering a thorough examination of the diabetes-CVD link and applying an advanced machine-learning technique for information extraction. The results have implications for specific interventions, risk evaluation models, and personalised therapy approaches aimed at reducing the effect of CVD in diabetics.

Keywords: Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes, Risk causes; Ontological data mining; Knowledge representation; Data-driven techniques; Semantic reasoning; Health data analysis.