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HealthWatch Home saves all data in a MS Access database. It also provides data management functionalities, such as export, delete, sort, and filter. You can also use tools provided by MS Access to manage data and create reports.
If you want to export the listed data to an Excel worksheet
, select "Tool->Export"
menu from the main menu.
To
import mass data from an Excel worksheet, select "Tool->Import" menu from
the main menu bar. After select the file from the "Open file" dialog,
define the format for your file in the "Import data" dialog. You can save your definitions on a file so
that reuse it in next time. To import data,
1. First
name and Last
name: These data are no necessary for calculations, but they are
important in saving data. HealthWatch Home groups data based on person. 2. Gender and Age: Almost all
calculations depend on these data. Therefore, they should be entered
correctly (note: if there is no Age data, HealthWatch Home can calculate Age from Birthday and Test date). 3. Race:
This data will be used
for the estimations of waist percentiles (only for Caucasian, African-American and Hispanic). HealthWatch Home supports the following case-insensitive enters
for race: White, Caucasian, African-American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, Native-American,Multi-racial,
Unknown. 4. Smoker and Treatment for
Hypertension: These data are used for calculating "10-year risk of
having a heart attack" for adults only. 5. Test
Date: HealthWatch Home
calculates person's age based on this data and Birthday, and many
calculations use the information of person's age 6. Height and Weight: These data
are used to calculate height-for-age, weight-for-age, and weight-for-height
percentiles for infants, children and adolescents (2 to 20 years); and BMI
for children and adults. The default units for weight and height are
"pound" and "inch", respectively. If you want to use
metric unit, select "Tool->Options..." menu from the main menu
bar, then select "Kilogram" for weight and "Centimeter"
for height. 7. Head
circumference: This
data is used to calculate Head circumference-for-age percentile for infants
only. 8. Systolic
BP and Diastolic
BP: Blood pressure data will be used to calculate percentiles for age for
children (under 17), identify metabolic syndrome and calculate 10-year risk
for having a heart attack for adults. 9. Fasting
blood triglycerides, Total cholesterol, Blood HDL cholesterol and Fasting glucose are
used to identify metabolic syndrome and calculate 10-year risk for having a
heart attack for adults.