Singapore, March 23 -- Although there are existing calculators for predicting the risk of coronary artery disease in an individual, they are often inaccurate, as they fail to take into account many host characteristics, including ethnicity and underlying medical conditions such as HIV.

The Centre for Clinical Research and Biostatistics, the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and the Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)'s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) have evaluated the effectiveness of a simple tool - Automatic Retinal Image Analysis (ARIA) technology - for assessing cardiovascular risk in people living with HIV.

Results showed the model, which incorporates both ret...