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Developing a Health Risk Evaluation Method for Triple H
The development of a health evaluation system from human-related data is an important issue in preventive medicine. Previously, most studies have focused on disease assessment and prevention in patients. However, even if certain risk factors are all within normal ranges, individuals may not necessar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30939773 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071168 |
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author | Wang, Chien-Chih Chang, Cheng-Ding Jiang, Bernard C. |
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description | The development of a health evaluation system from human-related data is an important issue in preventive medicine. Previously, most studies have focused on disease assessment and prevention in patients. However, even if certain risk factors are all within normal ranges, individuals may not necessarily be completely healthy. This study focused on healthy individuals to develop a new index to assess health risks; this index can be used for the prevention of multiple diseases in healthy people. The kernel density technique was proposed to estimate the distribution of common risk factors and to develop a health risk index. A dataset of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia (Triple H) data from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan was used to demonstrate the proposed analytical process. The results of risk factor changes after six weeks of exercise were used to calculate the health risk index. The results showed that the subjects experienced a 7.29% reduction in their health risk index after the exercise intervention. This finding demonstrates the potential impact of an important reference index on quantifying the effect of maintenance in healthy people. |
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spelling | pubmed-64806282019-04-29 Developing a Health Risk Evaluation Method for Triple H Wang, Chien-Chih Chang, Cheng-Ding Jiang, Bernard C. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The development of a health evaluation system from human-related data is an important issue in preventive medicine. Previously, most studies have focused on disease assessment and prevention in patients. However, even if certain risk factors are all within normal ranges, individuals may not necessarily be completely healthy. This study focused on healthy individuals to develop a new index to assess health risks; this index can be used for the prevention of multiple diseases in healthy people. The kernel density technique was proposed to estimate the distribution of common risk factors and to develop a health risk index. A dataset of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia (Triple H) data from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan was used to demonstrate the proposed analytical process. The results of risk factor changes after six weeks of exercise were used to calculate the health risk index. The results showed that the subjects experienced a 7.29% reduction in their health risk index after the exercise intervention. This finding demonstrates the potential impact of an important reference index on quantifying the effect of maintenance in healthy people. MDPI 2019-04-01 2019-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6480628/ /pubmed/30939773 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071168 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Chien-Chih Chang, Cheng-Ding Jiang, Bernard C. Developing a Health Risk Evaluation Method for Triple H |
title | Developing a Health Risk Evaluation Method for Triple H |
title_full | Developing a Health Risk Evaluation Method for Triple H |
title_fullStr | Developing a Health Risk Evaluation Method for Triple H |
title_full_unstemmed | Developing a Health Risk Evaluation Method for Triple H |
title_short | Developing a Health Risk Evaluation Method for Triple H |
title_sort | developing a health risk evaluation method for triple h |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30939773 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071168 |
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