A research team has come up with a new technique that allows detecting the possibility of strokes due to narrowed neck arteries by analyzing videos of patients.
Over time, fatty deposits can form on the walls of the arteries in the neck area, leading to their narrowing, which warns of an "ischemic stroke", which is caused by a clot that blocks the arteries that carry blood to the brain.
It is noteworthy that about 87% of the strokes that a person can be exposed to occur due to this health problem.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association of the American Heart Association between 2016 and 2019, was conducted using applications to zoom in on movement and measure the image clarity in videos, to monitor any subtle changes in the heart. The skin surface of experimental participants when photographed with smartphones.
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The website "Medical Express", which specializes in medical research, quoted the lead study team, Hsin Li Kao, a cardiologist at the National University Hospital in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, as saying that "between 2% and 5% of strokes that It affects humans every year without symptoms, so it is necessary to develop new techniques to better monitor the likelihood of these strokes.”
Kao explains that the arteries of the neck are located directly under the skin, and therefore any change in the blood flow within them can be observed on the outer surface of the skin, but these changes are too subtle to be observed with the naked eye.
The researchers believe that analyzing videos captured by smartphones is a simple, easy-to-implement, non-invasive procedure, and may represent a better opportunity for early detection of stroke risks.