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Routine scan can detect threat of heart attack nine years in advance

 

Hostility has been linked with cardiovascular disease since the 1950s, but we still don't fully understand why. Stock Image: Getty Expand

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Hostility has been linked with cardiovascular disease since the 1950s, but we still don't fully understand why. Stock Image: Getty

Hostility has been linked with cardiovascular disease since the 1950s, but we still don't fully understand why. Stock Image: Getty

Hostility has been linked with cardiovascular disease since the 1950s, but we still don't fully understand why. Stock Image: Getty

Laura Donnelly

Scientists in the UK have found a way to identify people most likely to have a heart attack years before it strikes.

The breakthrough by Oxford University uses artificial intelligence to look "beneath the surface" of routine CT scans and spot changes to blood vessels supplying the heart.

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