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Cairo - Hazem Badr

YOU WONT BELIEVE: New program could predict heart attack five years before it occurs - You Need To See This

A monitor showing a 3-dimensional scan of a human heart at Heidelberg University Hospital's research wing. Reuters

Researchers from the Cedars-Sinai hospital have created an artificial intelligence-enabled tool that may make it easier to predict if a person will have a heart attack.

The tool, described in The Lancet Digital Health journal, accurately predicted which patients would experience a heart attack in five years based on the amount and composition of plaque in arteries that supply blood to the heart.

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