AI-enabled opportunistic measurement of liver steatosis in coronary artery calcium scans predicts cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality: an AI-CVD study within the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

By sjmartinez • April 13, 2025

Naghavi M, Atlas K, Reeves A, Zhang C, Wasserthal J, Atlas T, Henschke CI, Yankelevitz DF, Zulueta JJ, Budoff MJ, Branch AD, Ma N, Yip R, Fan W, Roy SK, Nasir K, Molloi S, Fayad Z, McConnell MV, Kakadiaris I, Maron DJ, Narula J, Williams K, Shah PK, Abela G, Vliegenthart R, Levy D, Wong ND. AI-enabled opportunistic measurement of liver steatosis in coronary artery calcium scans predicts cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality: an AI-CVD study within the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2025 Apr 12;13(2):e004760. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2024-004760. PMID: 40221147.

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