Medical Xpress March 31, 2025
While everybody’s heart has an absolute chronological age (as old as that person is), hearts also have a theoretical “biological” age that is based on how the heart functions. So, someone who is 50 but has poor heart health could have a biological heart age of 60, while someone aged 50 with optimal heart health could have a biological heart age of 40.
Researchers presenting a study at EHRA 2025, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), demonstrated that by using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze standard 12-lead electrocardiograph (ECG) data taken from almost half a million cases, they were able to create an algorithm to predict the biological age of the heart. This algorithm could be...
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