A Data Mining Analysis of Asthma Risk Factors
Alma Pochini, Ben M. Williams, Hasanboy M. Isomitdinov, Gongzhu Hu · 2015
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. Although causes of asthma may directly related to environment factors such as dust mites, pollens, cold air, etc.,we would like to find out if demographic, social and behavior factors also play a role. In this paper, we present a study of the behavioral rick factors in relation to people getting asthma. This study applies data mining techniques to the 2013 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) dataset of over 490,000 observations with 336 variables. The results reveal some relationships between some of these variables and asthma that may help asthma prevention.