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AI Offers Personalized Care Recommendations to Curb Heart Disease Risk

An artificial intelligence system can quantify how much patients must reduce their blood pressure or cholesterol to overcome their inherited risk of coronary artery disease.

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By Shania Kennedy

- Researchers have validated a causal artificial intelligence model designed to identify a patient’s inherited risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and provide personalized recommendations for reducing their blood pressure or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol to address that risk, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) note that CAD is the most common type of heart disease in the US. The condition is caused by plaque buildup in the walls of the arteries that supply blood to the heart. These buildups are created from cholesterol deposits, particularly LDL, causing the artery to narrow over time and decrease blood flow to the heart.

The press release states that the AI tool assessed in the study was developed to help explain why a patient is at risk of CAD, how to reduce risk, and how much a patient will benefit from certain actions designed to reduce risk.