Current guidelines for diagnosing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are inadequate, particularly for women, as they rely on outdated studies and do not consider sex and body size differences.
The threshold for diagnosing HCM has been set at 15mm for everyone for decades, failing to account for natural variations in heart size due to sex and body size.
The new personalized thresholds showed a better diagnosis rate for women, increasing identification of HCM by 20 percentage points and suggesting that women have historically been underdiagnosed.
Using AI to analyze thousands of heart scans allowed the researchers to establish new standards that not only reduced misdiagnosis but also balanced the identification of HCM among genders.
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