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.
Claims10
An evaluation system for individualized health and fitness interventions, the system comprising:
- one or more hardware processors;
- 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:
- determine a working tissue flow of a 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 a relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow, wherein a 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;
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- provide the working tissue flow and the relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow as output with a visual indicator to a user interface to the evaluation system, 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.
A method for generating individualized health and fitness interventions, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication of a desired fitness or health objective;
- determining a working tissue flow of a 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 the resistance in a vessel bed of the subject;
- identifying a relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow, wherein a relative peripheral control of the working tissue flow is proportional to the reciprocal of the value indicative of a resistance in the vessel bed;
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- 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;
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- providing 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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.