Research Article

Heart Health Risk Assessment System: A Nonintrusive Proposal Using Ontologies and Expert Rules

Table 2

Cardiovascular rules table.

Minimum cardiovascular benefit Aerobic limit Anaerobic threshold Severe exercise

Borg scale RPE 11
(fairly light)
14
(between somewhat hard and hard)
17
(very hard)
18–20
(extremely hard to exhaustion)
% 50% 60–65% 80–85% 85%
% 70% 75–80% 90–92% 95–100%
Ventilatory responses Unnoticeable change Still barely noticeable Difficult to speak Exercise hyperpnea, cannot speak