CV risk factors visible in retinal images

Retinal fundus photographs were used to predict CV risk factors, according to a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
“Most cardiovascular risk calculators use some combination of these parameters to identify patients at high risk of experiencing either a major cardiovascular event or cardiac-related mortality within a prespecified time period, such as 10 years,” Ryan Poplin, machine learning technical lead at Google, and colleagues wrote. “However, some of these parameters may be unavailable. ... We therefore explored whether additional signals for cardiovascular

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