AI may spot deadly heart risk in a routine ECG

A routine heart test may be hiding a warning sign that doctors have missed for years. That is the big takeaway from new UC Berkeley research published in Nature. Researchers trained an artificial intelligence model to study ECGs, also called EKGs, and look for patterns tied to sudden cardiac death. This is the scary part. Sudden cardiac arrest can strike people with known heart problems. However, it can also hit younger athletes and people who never knew they were at risk. Each year, hundreds of