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Zuzana Pella1, Dominik Pella2,3, Ján Paralič1
1Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia.
Insights
Factor analysis identified six key factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, including patient characteristics, renal and lifestyle factors, and medical history. This improves understanding for personalized cardiovascular medicine.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Medical Informatics
- Biostatistics
Background:
- Current cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk quantification methods often lack accuracy.
- Personalized medicine offers a path to improved CVD diagnostics and treatment.
- Understanding complex interrelationships among CVD risk factors is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To apply factor analysis to identify significant risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
- To explore connections between numerous risk factors in hospitalized patients.
- To refine cardiovascular risk assessment through data-driven insights.
Main Methods:
- Factor analysis was employed on data from 808 patients at the East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases.
- Data included symptomatic and coronarography characteristics.
- Clustering techniques were used to group identified factors.
Main Results:
- Six significant factors were identified: patient demographics, renal parameters/fibrinogen, family history of CVD, personal CVD history, lifestyle, and echocardiogram/ECG results.
- Factor analysis confirmed established CVD risk factors.
- The study identified key clusters of interrelated risk indicators.
Conclusions:
- The identified factors provide a more nuanced understanding of cardiovascular risk.
- These findings support the advancement of personalized medicine in cardiology.
- Further research into explanatory methods for CVD risk factors is warranted.
Abstract:
Today, there are many parameters used for cardiovascular risk quantification and to identify many of the high-risk subjects; however, many of them do not reflect reality. Modern personalized medicine is the key to fast and effective diagnostics and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. One step towards this goal is a better understanding of connections between numerous risk factors. We used Factor analysis to identify a suitable number of factors on observed data about patients hospitalized in the East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Košice. The data describes 808 participants cross-identifying symptomatic and coronarography resulting characteristics. We created several clusters of factors. The most significant cluster of factors identified six factors: basic characteristics of the patient; renal parameters and fibrinogen; family predisposition to CVD; personal history of CVD; lifestyle of the patient; and echo and ECG examination results. The factor analysis results confirmed the known findings and recommendations related to CVD. The derivation of new facts concerning the risk factors of CVD will be of interest to further research, focusing, among other things, on explanatory methods.
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