Researchers at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) have developed an artificial intelligence tool that may help predict serious cardiovascular problems many years before symptoms appear.
The system, known as CardiOmicScore, uses information from a single blood test to estimate a person's future risk of six major cardiovascular diseases (CVDs): coronary artery disease, stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, peripheral artery disease and venous thromboembolism. In people at elevated risk, the model was able to detect warning signals as far as 15 years before clinical onset.
The findings were published in Nature Communications.
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Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 19.8 million fatalities in 2022 alone.
