Ten-year risk of death from a heart attack or stroke. this is promising technology for millions of americans who suffer from heart disease. it s the leading cause as you know of death in the united states. joining us to talk about this is dr. tara anarula. this could be game changing. it could. you said in the introcardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the country so the holy grail of cardiology is figuring out who s going to be at risk for an event like a heart attack or stroke. many times things are silent until they re not. until the day you have your heart attack and stroke. so we need a good screening tool to give somebody their prediction, get them on the road to prevention. the best we have now is something called a risk calculator. when a patient comes in my office as they did this week and said, dock, what are my chances of a heart attack or stroke in
X-ray study. this hasn t been studied yet. it was preliminary. but it is a proof of concept, an idea you can take a single chest x-ray. so many have chest x-rays in our lives. so the res researchers took 100 mick m x-rays and assessed them. there was a real association there. and then they compared it to the risk calculator that i mentioned and it correlated well with that, in fact, it added information to that. the beauty of this, if if it proves to be true, one x-ray could potentially help in the sense you could get a report that says your chest x-ray is clear but you re at risk of
Tool, and saw, does it correlate with those number of patients who went on to have a heart attack or stroke, and it did. the tool wasable to accurately match that. anyway when they compared it to the risk calculator, it correlated very well to that. when i spoke to one of the radiologists, he said it was interesting, we can cheek at a chest x-ray, what is fascinating about this is, he said you would look at some, and never be able to tell what it is that the a.i. is picking up on that then goes on to increase that person s risk. it s still a bit of a black box in terms of our understanding of how this is working. doctor, you were mentioning, probably hinting at why this is so helpful. if you identify the risk factors
We don t have yet a tool we have a risk calculator, an equation, a formula, and it gives up a percent risk score we can tell our patients. the problem is we adopt always have the information we need, so how can we incorporate that to complement the ability to predict who might be at risk, appeared most important to get them on treatment, medication like statins or encourage them to make lifestyle changes. this study very preliminary, and it s not been published or peer reviewed, but it opens the door for us to understand could this conceptually be used. what researchers did is use a simple chest x-ray to try to predict if someone s risk. they took 150,000 x-rays and generated an a.i. modeling, and then they took 11,000 outpatients and applied that
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