Patent Document ID: 8409104
Application ID: 12151048
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An automated method of determining a measure of a subject's heart age, said method carried out by a computer system 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 by a user input device of the computer system or transferred electronically from another device; 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: (i) at least one cholesterol-based algorithm containing a cholesterol level as a parameter which is selected if the set-of parameters for which input data has been received includes a cholesterol level and (ii) at least one non-cholesterol-based algorithm that does not contain a cholesterol level as a parameter which is selected if the set of parameters for which input data has been received does not include a cholesterol level, and wherein said at least one non-cholesterol algorithm is at least one of the following algorithms: algorithm 3 which determines the subject's heart age from the following set of parameters: age, gender, incidence of diabetes, incidence of smoking. incidence of hypertensive condition, systolic blood pressure and body mass, algorithm 6 which determines the subject's heart age from the following set of parameters: age, gender, incidence of diabetes, incidence of smoking, incidence of hypertensive condition, and body mass; calculating a heart age for the subject according to the selected'algorithm; and providing as output said calculated heart age on a visual display of the computer system.