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Self-taught artificial intelligence beats doctors at predicting heart attacks

Doctors have lots of tools for predicting a patient’s health. But—as even they will tell you—they’re no match for the complexity of the human body. Heart attacks in particular are hard to anticipate. Now, scientists have shown that computers capable of teaching themselves can perform even better than standard medical guidelines, significantly increasing prediction rates. If implemented, the new method could save thousands or even millions of lives a year.

“I can’t stress enough how important it is,” says Elsie Ross, a vascular surgeon at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who was not involved with the work, “and how much I really hope that doctors start to embrace the use…

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 Self-taught artificial intelligence beats doctors at predicting heart attacks

Doctors have lots of tools for predicting a patient’s health. But—as even they will tell you—they’re no match for the complexity of the human body. Heart attacks in particular are hard to anticipate. Now, scientists have shown that computers capable of teaching themselves can perform even better than standard medical guidelines, significantly increasing prediction rates. If implemented, the new method could save thousands or even millions of lives a year.

5 Forgotten Risk Factors For Heart Attack

Risk factors for heart attack are universally well-known since they increase the likelihood in just about anyone – smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and lack of exercise. But there are other risk factors that also increase the likelihood of having a myocardial infarction. Risk factors we tend to forget about until it may be too late.

6 Surprising Ways To Ward Off Heart Attacks

You already know that a healthy diet and not smoking are important for a healthy heart. In fact, traditional risk factors like a family history of heart disease and controlling high cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure, are all central to preventing heart disease. But there are some surprising ways you can up your odds of warding off a heart attack...

85% of hospital admissions for chest pain are NOT heart attack

Admitting people to hospital who don’t need to be admitted not only takes up valuable staffing and hospital resources that could be assigned to real heart patients in need, but also costs the health care system billions of dollars each year. As you can imagine, this is a real dilemma for the medical profession.

The Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center

At the Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center (HASPC), we are 100% focused on heart attackprevention, stroke prevention, and providing optimal private care to individuals at risk. We practice the Bale Doneen Method using cutting edge techniques and technology to help predict and prevent the occurrence of heart attacks, ischemic strokes, and type 2 diabetes.

British Heart Foundation

Most heart attacks are caused by coronary heart disease. This is when your coronary arteries narrow due to a gradual build-up of atheroma (fatty material) within their walls. If the atheroma becomes unstable, a piece may break off and lead to a blood clot forming.

Heart Foundation

When an area of plaque cracks, blood cells and other parts of the blood stick to the damaged area and form blood clots. A heart attack occurs when a blood clot completely blocks the flow of blood and seriously reduces blood flow to the heart muscle. As a result, some of the heart muscle starts to die. The longer the blockage is left untreated, the more the heart muscle is damaged. If the blood flow is not restored quickly, the damage to the heart muscle is permanent.

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

The truth is that many heart attacks start slowly, as a mild pain or discomfort. If you feel such a symptom, you may not be sure what's wrong. Your symptoms may even come and go. Even those who have had a heart attack may not recognize their symptoms, because the next attack can have entirely different ones.

Ottawa Heart Institute

The immediate treatment for a heart attack is to find the blocked arteries and open them up. Ongoing care that includes lifestyle changes and new medications is also required to ensure the best recovery possible.

Texas Heart Institute

Welcome to the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital website. In keeping with our mission to reduce the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease, we are pleased to provide a wealth of reliable information.

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