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Title:
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DEVELOPMENT OF A CARDIOVASCULAR RISK CALCULATOR: CARDIORISK_ALERT |
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Author(s):
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Borja Martínez-Pérez, Isabel de la Torre-Díez, Miguel López-Coronado |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-03-0 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2014 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), heart attack, risk calculator, risk factors, Web platform. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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93 |
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Last Page:
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100 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the worldwide leaders in mortality, with 17.3 million deaths in 2008 alone, representing 30% of all deaths globally. There are several risk factors that increase the probability of suffering a CVD, some of them non-modifiable and other behavioral such as alcohol use, tobacco use, unhealthy diet, or inactivity, among others, which can be changed by the patient in order to prevent the CVDs. Currently, there are many applications and systems to calculate the absolute risk factor of suffering a CVD, with the purpose of making people check their health status referring to CVDs (specially heart attacks and strokes), so they can try to adopt a healthier behavior in order to prevent them. However, after developing a study of the state of the art about them, we found several things that are lacking or can be improved. Hence, in this paper we have developed a Web platform named CardioRisk_Alert with a CVD risk calculator trying to improve the current systems, including the use of three different well-known algorithms, which are Framingham algorithm and two variations of the SCORE algorithm, for low-risk and high-risk regions; the presentation of the results with visual graphs; and the inclusion of informative data about the algorithms used. Although this platform has some limitations, it has improved other applications and we have obtained some anonymous data of the use and the users of the calculator to generate some statistics. |
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