Avtor/Urednik     Povalej, Petra; Kokol, Peter; Završnik, Jernej
Naslov     Non-invasive methods for children's cholesterol level determination
Tip     članek
Vir     Inform Med Slov Print ed
Vol. in št.     Letnik 8, št. 1
Leto izdaje     2003
Obseg     str. 47-55
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     Today, there is a controversy about the role of cholesterol in infants and the measurement and management of blood cholesterol in children. Several scientific evidences are supporting relationship between elevated blood cholesterol in children and high cholesterol in adults and development of adult arteriosclerotic diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. Therefore managing and measuring the level of blood cholesterol in children is very important for the health of the whole population. Non-invasive methods are much more convenient for the children because of their anxieties about blood examinations. In this paper we will present a new attempt to find noninvasive methods for determining the level of blood cholesterol in children with the use of intelligent systems.
Deskriptorji     CHOLESTEROL
DECISION TREES
DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED
CHILD
LIPOPROTEINS, LDL CHOLESTEROL
LIPOPROTEINS, HDL CHOLESTEROL
TRIGLYCERIDES
BODY WEIGHT
BODY HEIGHT