Scalable integrated screening tools for cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for more than 17.9 million deaths per year. Atherosclerosis, characterized by stiffening of the arteries, is the precursor to heart attacks and strokes, which cover 85% of all CVD mortalities. Since the disease is largely asymptomatic, a major challenge remains in screening for at-risk individuals. Existing screening tools primarily rely on questionnaires which do not account for ethnicity and require blood pressure and cholesterol readings. Thus, there is a crucial need for low-cost, non-invasive screening tools, especially in low-resource areas where people do not have access to routine clinical exams and blood tests. To address these shortcomings, this thesis presents a scalable integrated CVD screening toolkit that is practical and can be deployed in a real-world setting.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Ouyang, Victoria(Victoria S.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Richard R. Fletcher.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129918

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/129918