AI retinal scans identify osteoporosis risk before fractures occur

Osteoporosis affects approximately 19.7% of the global population and often goes undiagnosed until life-threatening fractures occur.

In the quiet ritual of a routine eye exam, science has found an unexpected window into the hidden architecture of bone. Researchers have demonstrated that an AI model called RetiAGE, trained to read biological aging in retinal photographs, can identify people at elevated risk of osteoporosis — a disease that silently afflicts nearly one in five people worldwide and is rarely discovered until a fracture announces its presence. The eye, long understood as a mirror of the body's vascular and neural health, may now serve as an early sentinel for skeletal fragility, offering a low-cost, non-invasiv

AI retinal scans identify osteoporosis risk before fractures occur

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