Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are revolutionizing cardiovascular health by analysing environmental factors at an unprecedented scale. Geospatial AI integrates vast datasets — from satellite imagery down to street-level views — to identify complex risk patterns, which enables personalized predictions and guides precision interventions to mitigate the environmental burden of disease.
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The authors’ work was supported by grants 1R35ES031702, R01ES017290, R01ES033670-01, and P50MD017351-01 to S.R. from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The funding organizations had no role in preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; nor the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
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Chen, Z., Dazard, J.E., Deo, S. et al. Emerging AI tools for geospatially resolved cardiovascular risk. Nat Rev Cardiol 22, 697–699 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-025-01204-4
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