Artificial Intelligence Mines ECG Data to Estimate 'Physiologic Age'

The future applicability of using ECG-predicted age is promising, Kapa said, especially given how quick and easy a test it is to perform. "Can we use it to say whether or not somebody might be afflicted by certain diseases that just haven't been diagnosed yet? Or might it reflect a situation where we need to investigate further for other incident diseases like diabetes or hypertension?" he asked. "The vast majority of the population in fact aren't'patients,' and so there's a lot more undiagnosed disease than there is diagnosed and having an easy way of knowing in whom to investigate for the evidence of disease becomes something very important, especially with rising costs in the healthcare system."