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 the 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.
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An evaluation system for individualized health and fitness interventions, the system comprising:
- one or more hardware processors;
- one or more storage media;
- health and fitness regimens stored on at least one of the one or more storage media;
- 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:
- receive a measured total blood drive that represents a force on blood to pass through a vessel bed of a subject;
- receive a stiffness index representing stiffness of arterial structure of the subject;
- receive a local dilation response representing a hypoxic drive for dilation of a tissue of the subject;
- receive an autonomic constriction index representing constriction of the vessel bed of the subject;
- determine a value indicative of a resistance in the vessel bed of the subject using the stiffness index, the local dilation response, and the autonomic constriction index;
- determine a working tissue flow of the subject by dividing the measured total blood drive with the value indicative of the resistance in the vessel bed of the subject;
- provide the working tissue flow and a relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow;
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- in response to receiving an indication of a desired fitness or health objective, determine a desired value or range for the relative peripheral control of working tissue flow;
- and provide at least one regimen from the stored health and fitness regimens associated with maintaining, increasing, or decreasing the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow based on moving the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow to the desired value or range for the relative peripheral control of working tissue flow.
A method for generating individualized health and fitness interventions, the method comprising:
- determining a working tissue flow of a subject;
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- determining an extent to which a relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow shows that the subject is peripherally limited or centrally limited with respect to a desired relative peripheral control of working tissue flow for an objective for the subject's health or fitness;
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- identifying at least one intervention corresponding to maintaining or moving the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow of the subject to the desired relative peripheral control of working tissue flow.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.