Will be presented in Vienna, at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics, the latest study showing that with a simple one eye examination non-invasive, when combined with other information, may be able to predict the risk of heart attack. The researchers will detail how they used data from the UK biobank, which contains medical records, based on the lifestyle of 500,000 people, to calculate a measure called ‘fractal size’.
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As reported by the Guardian, the researchers would discover how the combination of information about blood vessels in the retina, combined with traditional clinical factors, allowed them to better identify the risk of a heart attack in the group of participants compared to established models that included only demographics. . The PhD student at the Usher and Roslin Institutes of the University of Edinburgh and author of the presentation, Ana Villaplana-VelascoHe explained: ‘Surprisingly, we found that our model was able to better rank participants with low or high MI risk in the UK biobank compared to established models that only include demographics. The improvement in our model is it was even higher when we added a score on the genetic propensity for developing myocardial infarction. “
She also added that it will be necessary to repeat the analysis separately between males and females to assess whether a sex-specific model for heart attack yields a better risk classification. The medical director of the British Heart Foundation, Professor Sir Nilesh Samani he added, however, that further research will need to be done to show that these predictions can be considered sound. The conditions, however, are more than excellent.