Cardiovascular risk and status assessment

This work focuses on the development of models to support the assessment of a patient´s global cardiovascular condition. Three types of models, based on different types of information, have been developed: long term cardiovascular risk models, that evaluate the risk of occurring of cardiovascular event within a long period of time (years); short term cardiovascular risk models, to assess the risk of death within a short period of time (months); cardiovascular status assessment models, to estimate the current cardiovascular condition of a patient. Three major drawbacks of current cardiovascular tools are addressed: reduced number of risk factors considered by each individual tool, inappropriateness of these tools to incorporate empirical clinical expertise and incapacity of these tools to deal with incomplete information. Methodologies and preliminary results, obtained under FP7 HeartCycle project, as well as future directions of research are also presented in this paper.