Patent ID: 8679009

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method for assessing a body system for an emergence of a comorbidity associated with a primary disease, comprising: receiving at least one of an autonomic index, a neurologic index, a stress marker index, a psychiatric index, an endocrine index, or a quality of life index of a patient; comparing the at least one index to at least one reference value associated with the at least one index; assessing a susceptibility of a the body system to the emergence of the comorbidity at least partially caused by the primary disease based on the comparing, wherein the body system comprises at least one of an autonomic system, a neurologic system, a psychiatric system, an endocrine system, or subsystems of the foregoing; and providing an output relating to the assessing, wherein the output comprises at least one of increased susceptibility, decreased susceptibility, stable susceptibility, or a determination that a the susceptibility cannot be determined.