The system could have a significant impact in the near future.
More people die annually from cardiovascular diseases than any other cause, according to the World Health Organization.
In an announcement Wednesday the university said that when a patient arrived at hospital experiencing chest pain, a "standard component of care" was for a scan of the coronary arteries to take place, something called a coronary CT angiogram. If no significant narrowing is found, then patients are sent home. The university added that the problem was that some patients would still go on to have a heart attack in the future.
"This has huge potential to detect the early signs of disease, and to be able to take all preventative steps before a heart attack strikes, ultimately saving lives." "It will enable individuals at risk of a future heart attack to be identified at a stage when conventional scans do not show any abnormality and so allow early initiation of preventive treatment," Ray added.
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