High blood pressure prediction based on AAA++ using machine-learning algorithms

Abstract

The heart pumps the blood around the body to supply energy and oxygen for all the tissues of the body. In order to pump the blood, heart pushes the blood against the walls of arteries, which creates some pressure inside the arteries, called as blood pressure (BP). If this pressure is more than the desired level, we treat it as high blood pressure (HBP). Present days, HBP victims are growing in number across the globe. BP may be elevated because of change in biological or psychological state of a person. In this paper, we considered attributes such as age, anger, and anxiety (AAA) and obesity (+), cholesterol level (+) of a person to predict whether a person is prone to HBP or not. Obesity and cholesterol levels are considered as post-increment of AAA, where obesity as one +, and total blood cholesterol as another + because experimental results reveal that their impact is less comparatively AAA. In our technique, we used different classifiers for prediction, where each classifier considers the impact of each A in AAA along with obesity and cholesterol level of a person to predict whether a person becomes a victim of HBP or not. Random forest algorithm has shown 87.5% accuracy in prediction.

Keywords

• blood pressure
• stress
• age
• anxiety
• anger
• obesity
• blood cholesterol
• hypertension