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A team of researchers has created an AI that assesses the risk of you having a heart attack in the next 10 years, just by looking once at your chest X-ray. Heart disorders that from reduced or blocked blood flow in arteries due to the accumulation of cholesterol and fat in them are called atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVSD). It is one of the major causes of stroke in heart patients. The team’s deep learning model offers a potential solution for population-based opportunistic screening of cardiovascular disease risk using existing chest X-ray images. Generally, if a doctor wants to predict the risk of heart attack for a patient, they model that calculates the ASCVD risk score, which involves evaluating cardiac health on the basis of factors like systolic blood pressure, age, hypertension and so on. However, since it may not always be possible to have to all these records, the researchers consider X-rays to be an ideal singular parameter for calculating heart attack risk.