Eric Topol March 31, 2024
The remarkable wealth of data that’s embedded and being missed
This week a new study using chest X-rays capped off a crop of many others for using medical scans for unintended diagnostic purposes, for which the term “opportunistic” is getting adopted.
Before I get into the new report, here’s a summary I put together, a Table of 10 publications, with 4 different imaging modalities, detecting things that have not previously been contemplated.
The New Study
The atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk score, based on 9 variables, is the most frequent way clinicians quantitatively gauge heart disease risk for patients over the next 10 years for the major adverse CV events (MACE) of heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death. You can...
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