‎Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide‎. ‎To specify an appropriate model to determine the risk of CVD and predict survival rate‎, ‎users are required to specify a functional form which relates the outcome variables to the input ones‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we proposed a dimension reduction method using a general model‎, ‎which includes many widely used survival models as special cases‎.

‎Using an appropriate combination of dimension reduction and Cox Proportional Hazards model‎, ‎we found a method which is effective for survival prediction‎.