Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to identify patients at risk of heart failure, allowing them to be treated earlier, researchers have suggested. The algorithm has been trained to identify early symptoms of the condition using patient health records and could bring forward diagnoses by two years, according to medics behind the platform. An estimated 26 million people around the world have heart failure, which prevents the heart from pumping blood around the body properly. For the study, which was funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), researchers used the patient records of 565…