Musa Karim Author

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Patterns in Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease using the Apriori Algorithm

Author(s):

Musa Karim*, Shumaila Furnaz, Tahir Saghir, Nadeem Hasan Rizvi and Ahmed Raheem

Background: Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the dominating cause of mortality around the globe. Aim of this study was to identify the co-occurrence of risk factors of cardiovascular disease using the Apriori data mining algorithm among the patients visiting to outpatients department of a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan from January 2017 to June 2017.

Methods: This cross-sectional study includes 5,164 consecutive patients visiting to OPD of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi Pakistan from January 2017 to June 2017. CVD risk factors were collected for all enrolled patients. Association rules were developed and assessed by applying data mining technique the Apriori algorithm. Pruning approaches such as removal of redundant ru... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8602.1000365

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