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Dissecting heart age using cardiac magnetic resonance videos, electrocardiograms, biobanks, and deep learning

Le Goallec, A.; Prost, J.-B.; Collin, S.; Diai, S.; Vincent, T.; Patel, C. J.

2021-06-16 health informatics
10.1101/2021.06.09.21258645 medRxiv
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Heart disease is the first cause of death after age 65 and, with the world population aging, its prevalence is expected to starkly increase. We used deep learning to build a heart age predictor on 45,000 heart magnetic resonance videos [MRI] and electrocardiograms [ECG] from the UK Biobank cohort (age range 45-81 years). We predicted age with a root mean squared error [RMSE] of 2.81{+/-}0.02 years (R-Squared=85.6{+/-}0.2%) and found that accelerated heart aging is heritable at more than 35%. MRI-based anatomical features predicted age better than ECG-based electro-physiological features (RMSE=2.89{+/-}0.02 years vs. 6.09{+/-}.0.02 years), and heart anatomical and electrical aging are weakly correlated (Pearson correlation=.249{+/-}.002). Our attention maps highlighted the aorta, the mitral valve, and the interventricular septum as key anatomical features driving heart age prediction. We identified genetic (e.g titin gene) and non-genetic correlates (e.g smoking) of accelerated heart aging.

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