Evaluation system for cardiovascular health assessment and individualized health and fitness interventions
OwnerAndrew J. Gow, Gillian M. Cannoninventors
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Abstract
A cardiovascular health assessment score, representing a working tissue flow and indicating the dependence on central and peripheral control mechanisms, is generated by an evaluation system and used to support a variety of individualized medicine and health applications. One or more of the individualized medicine and health applications may be implemented as part of the evaluation system and incorporate the cardiovascular health assessment.
Claims12
An evaluation system for individualized health and fitness interventions, the system comprising:
- one or more hardware processors;
- one or more storage media;
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- an application stored on at least one of the one or more storage media that, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, direct the one or more hardware processors to at least:
- cause to display a graphical user interface to the evaluation system, the graphical user interface comprising functionality for receiving test results and subject information and generating graphical representations of a relative peripheral control of a working tissue flow, wherein the relative peripheral control indicates dependence of the working tissue flow on central and peripheral factors on a spectrum from cardiac limited to vascular limited;
- receive, via the graphical user interface, an indication to generate a working tissue flow of a subject;
- in response to the indication to generate the working tissue flow of the subject, determine the working tissue flow of the subject and generate a graphical representation of the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow of the subject, wherein the working tissue flow indicates an ability to supply blood to working tissue of the subject and is a value generated based on a measured total blood drive and a value indicative of a resistance in a vessel bed of the subject, wherein determining the working tissue flow of the subject comprises:
- receiving the measured total blood drive that represents a force on blood to pass through the vessel bed of the subject;
- receiving a stiffness index (SI) representing stiffness of arterial structure of the subject;
- receiving a local dilation response (LD) representing a hypoxic drive for dilation of a tissue of the subject;
- receiving an autonomic constriction index (AC) representing constriction of the vessel bed of the subject;
- calculating the value indicative of the resistance in the vessel bed of the subject using the stiffness index (SI), the local dilation response (LD), and the autonomic constriction index (AI);
- identifying the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow, wherein the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow is proportional to the reciprocal of the value indicative of the resistance in the vessel bed;
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- dividing the measured total blood drive with the value indicative of the resistance in the vessel bed of the subject to determine the working tissue flow of the subject;
- provide the working tissue flow and the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow as a visual indicator in the graphical representation;
- receive, via the graphical user interface, an indication of a desired fitness or health objective;
- identify a corresponding value or range for a relative peripheral control of working tissue flow for the desired fitness or health objective;
- cause to display, in the graphical representation, the visual indicator of the working tissue flow and the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow in relation to the corresponding value or range for the relative peripheral control of working tissue flow for the desired fitness or health objective;
- receive an update to the working tissue flow and the relative peripheral control;
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- cause to display, in the graphical user interface, an adjusted position of the visual indicator of the working tissue flow and the relative peripheral control in relation to the corresponding value or range for the relative peripheral control of working tissue flow for the desired fitness or health objective based on the update.
A method for generating individualized health and fitness interventions, the method comprising:
- causing to display a graphical user interface to an evaluation system, the graphical user interface comprising functionality for receiving test results and subject information and generating graphical representations of a relative peripheral control of a working tissue flow, wherein the relative peripheral control indicates dependence of the working tissue flow on central and peripheral factors on a spectrum from cardiac limited to vascular limited;
- receiving, via the graphical user interface, an indication to generate a working tissue flow of a subject;
- receiving, via the graphical user interface an indication of a desired fitness or health objective;
- in response to the indication to generate the working tissue flow of the subject, determining the working tissue flow of the subject and generating a graphical representation of the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow of the subject, wherein the working tissue flow indicates an ability to supply blood to working tissue of the subject and is a value generated based on a measured total blood drive and a value indicative of a resistance in a vessel bed of the subject;
- identifying the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow, wherein the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow is proportional to the reciprocal of the value indicative of a resistance in the vessel bed;
- identifying a corresponding value or range for a relative peripheral control of working tissue flow for the desired fitness or health objective;
- determining an extent to which the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow shows that the subject is peripherally limited or centrally limited with respect to a value or range of a corresponding relative peripheral control of working tissue flow for the desired fitness or health objective;
- causing to display, in the graphical representation, a visual indicator of the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow with respect to the value or range of the corresponding relative peripheral control of working tissue flow for the desired fitness or health objective;
- receiving an update to the working tissue flow and the relative peripheral control;
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- causing to display, in the graphical user interface, an adjusted position of the visual indicator of the working tissue flow and the relative peripheral control in relation to the corresponding value or range for the relative peripheral control of working tissue flow for the desired fitness or health objective based on the update.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.