What Mayo Clinic’s AI heart age test can tell you and what you can do to improve health
What Mayo Clinic’s AI heart age test can tell you and what you can do to improve health
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Publish Date: 2026-07-08 10:19:00
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- Researchers at Mayo Clinic use AI to determine a heart’s “heart age” based on health, comparing it to the patient’s actual age.
- AI analysis involves processing echocardiograms to calculate this heart age.
- People with a heart age greater than their chronological age have a higher risk of premature death, while those with a younger heart age tend to live longer and experience fewer cardiac events.
- Lifestyle changes such as increased exercise, quitting smoking, managing stress, and reducing worry can narrow the gap between heart age and chronological age.
- Improvements in heart age can sometimes be observed within a week of implementing beneficial lifestyle changes.
- Beyond heart health, new AI-driven testing methods now exist to assess the aging process of various organs, providing more opportunities for preventive interventions.
