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"Artificial intelligence could be used to predict if a person is at risk of
having a heart attack up to 10 years in the future, a study has found.
The technology could save thousands of lives while improving treatment for
almost half of patients, researchers at the University of Oxford said.
The study, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), looked at how AI might
improve the accuracy of cardiac CT scans, which are used to detect blockages or
narrowing in the arteries.
Prof Charalambos Antoniades, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the BHF and
director of the acute multidisciplinary imaging and interventional centre at
Oxford, said: “Our study found that some patients presenting in hospital with
chest pain – who are often reassured and sent back home – are at high risk of
having a heart attack in the next decade, even in the absence of any sign of
disease in their heart arteries.
“Here we demonstrated that providing an accurate picture of risk to clinicians
can alter, and potentially improve, the course of treatment for many heart
patients.”
About 350,000 people in the UK have a CT scan each year but, according to the
BHF, many patients later die of heart attacks due to their failure in picking
up small, undetectable narrowings.
Researchers analysed the data of more than 40,000 patients undergoing routine
cardiac CT scans at eight UK hospitals, with a median follow-up time of 2.7
years.
The AI tool was tested on a further 3,393 patients over almost eight years and
was able to accurately predict the risk of a heart attack. AI-generated risk
scores were then presented to medics for 744 patients, with 45% having their
treatment plans altered by medics as a result.
Antoniades added: “We hope that this AI tool will soon be implemented across
the NHS, helping prevent thousands of avoidable deaths from heart attacks every
year in the UK.”"
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