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Artificial Intelligence Could Predict Your Chance of a Heart Attack
October 1, 2023
Doctors are using artificial intelligence to predict whether a patient could develop heart disease. Doctors say a traditional stress test can tell patients if there are blockages at the time the test was taken. Putting the images from a CT scan into the computer for AI analysis lets patients and doctors know where plaque is accumulating and its probability to lead to a future heart attack. In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds, according to the CDC.