Despite the increasing awareness about its severity and the importance of adopting preventive habits, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Most people already recognize that a healthy lifestyle, which includes a balanced diet and the practice of physical activity, is essential to prevent this disease. However, since few simple mechanisms allow a self-assessment and a continuous monitoring of the level of cardiac well-being, people are not conscious enough about their own cardiovascular health status. In this context, this paper presents and describes a tool related to the creation of cardiac well-being indexes that allow a quick and intuitive monitoring and visualization of the users' cardiovascular health level over time. For its implementation, data mining techniques were used to calculate the indexes, and a data warehouse was built to archive the data and to support the construction of dashboards for presenting the results. © 2021 Ana Duarte et al., published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston.
Ana Duarte, Orlando Belo. Cardiac well-being indexes: a decision support tool to monitor cardiovascular health. Journal of integrative bioinformatics. 2021 Mar 29;18(2):127-138
PMID: 33770831
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