AI to predict person’s risk of cardiac disease

Amid the disturbing trend of deaths due to cardiac arrest being recently reported from the country, a study has offered a ray of hope in artificial intelligence (AI) which, it said, may help predict and perhaps even address a person’s risk to prevent future death.

This could offer a new move toward prevention and global health strategies, said the researchers of the study who had analysed electronic health records from 25,000 people who had died suddenly and 70,000 people hospitalised for cardiac arrest who did not die in Paris, France and Seattle, Washington. They used AI to build personalised health equations that identified each person’s risk of dying from sudden cardiac arrest.