Patent Document ID: 20130073215
Application ID: 13671709
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. An automated method of determining a measure of a subjects heart age, said method carried out by a computer and comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of inputs, each relating to an attribute of the subject, each attribute defining one or more of a demographic status of the subject, a lifestyle status of the subject, a physical condition of the subject and a medical history of the subject, said inputs either provided through a user input device of the computer system or transferred electronically from another device, wherein said inputs do not include any quantitative measure of a cholesterol level of the subject; determining from said received inputs, a set of parameters for which input data has been received as input; selecting according to said set of parameters, a heart age calculation algorithm from a predetermined set of heart age calculation algorithms stored in a database on the computer system, wherein the selecting is implemented by a processor of the computer system, wherein the predetermined set of heart age calculations include at least one non-cholesterol-based algorithm that does not contain a cholesterol level as a parameter; calculating a heart age for the subject according to the selected algorithm; and providing as output said calculated heart age on visual display of the computer system.