AI spleen imaging linked to genomic heart disease risk: new heart-spleen axis

EricTopol · x · 2026-09-10

Cardiologist Eric Topol highlights a new study in Science Translational Medicine: an unanticipated connection between heart disease risk assessed by genomics and features of the spleen assessed by AI imaging, uncovering a new heart-spleen axis — an example of AI medical imaging plus genomics surfacing novel biology.

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