Predicting Heart Disease Risk Factors: Data Science Project

Mehrnaz Siavoshi
3 min readJul 7, 2020

According to the CDC, 1 of 4 deaths is caused by heart disease. This is a striking number, but doctors also state that heart disease is largely preventable.

What factors help predict whether someone has heart disease? This information can help doctors diagnose heart disease faster, and also inform patients who are at high risk.

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Mehrnaz Siavoshi

Health-oriented data scientist and public health student. @i_mehrnaz on Twitter.