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Carista
Last discussed Jul 1, 2026
An Oxford University spinout AI-based CT angiography analysis tool that detects inflammation in coronary artery walls (perivascular fat attenuation index) to identify high-risk patients before narrowing occurs, pending FDA approval.
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It's Not Cholesterol. Inflammation Is What's Actually Causing Heart Disease
Eric Topol · Jul 1, 2026
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Used for: Detecting coronary artery inflammation without narrowing via AI analysis of CT angiography fat tissue, to identify very high-risk patients 20+ years before heart disease manifests
Praised: Can detect 15-fold increased heart attack risk from arterial inflammation bef...
vs: Distinguished from ClearlyHealth scan and other US-based CT tools that do not...
"This is a University of Oxford spinout. I think it's called Carista. They're going to have that available soon. If you have inflammation without narrowing, you could have a 15-fold risk of a heart attack. So that's when you use that as a metric."
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