Scientific Papers

HeartMan User manual in Dutch.

Anneleen BAERT, Sofie PARDAENS, Delphine DE SMEDT, Dirk DE BACQUER, Els CLAYS

Although heart failure (HF) patients often consider sexual activity as an essential aspect of quality of life (QoL), studies concerning this topic are rather limited and are often dispersed. Factors influencing sexual activity involve physical symptoms and dysfunctions, as well as emotional and psychological concerns. Sexual counselling and exercise training are expected to have an effect. The aim of this study is to investigate this effect, using an mHealth application in HF patients.

The paper presents an approach to providing advice on health related quality of life to patients with congestive heart failure, using predictive models built from telemonitoring data. First, by combining machine learning algorithms, feature construction, feature selection and expert knowledge, we built a set of predictive models. We then identified which of the features present in the models can be changed by the patients themselves with an appropriate intervention and modelled the association between them and all the other features using linear models.

Authors: Mitja Luštrek, Erik Dovgan, Aljoša Vodopija, Marko Bohanec, Anneleen Baert, Sofie Pardaens, Els Clays

Authors: Aljoša Vodopija, Božidara Cvetković, Mitja Luštrek, Drago Rudel, Zdravko Balorda

Authors: A. Baert, S. Pardaens, D. De Smedt, N. Pauwels, E. Clays
3rd European Congress on eCardiology & eHealth, Berlin

Authors: A. Baert, S. Pardaens, D. De Smedt, N. Pauwels, E. Clays
9th European Public Health Conference, Vienna, Austria

Authors: Božidara Cvetković, Aljoša Vodopija, Mitja Luštrek, Drago Rudel and Zdravko Balorda.