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AI detects heart failure and valve disease from a standard ECG in under two seconds

Funded the AI ECG research

An AI tool developed at Imperial College London can spot heart failure and heart valve disease from a standard electrocardiogram (ECG), a test that has been in clinical use for a century. In a trial of 67,000 US patients, it flagged up to 81 percent of heart failure cases and 90 percent of valve disease cases — in under two seconds.

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New heart attack definition corrects decades of under-diagnosis in women

Rule Changes

Supported the new definition; funded research by Nicholas Mills

For decades, the blood test for heart attacks used a single threshold for every patient. That threshold caught nearly all men having heart attacks but missed some women, because women naturally carry lower levels of the heart-injury protein troponin. The world's four leading cardiovascular organizations just agreed on the first universal definition of a heart attack, and it corrects that bias.

Updated 2 days ago