Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the world’s leading cause of mortality. There is significant interest in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyse data from novel sensors such as wearables to provide an earlier and more accurate prediction and diagnosis of heart disease. Digital health technologies that fuse AI and sensing devices may help disease prevention and reduce the substantial morbidity and mortality caused by CVD worldwide. In this review, we identify and describe recent developments in the application of digital health for CVD, focusing on AI approaches for CVD detection, diagnosis, and prediction through AI models driven by data collected from wearables. We summarise the literature on the use of wearables and AI in cardiovascular disease diagnosis, followed by a detailed description of the dominant AI approaches applied for modelling and prediction using data acquired from sensors such as wearables. We discuss the AI algorithms and models and clinical applications and find that AI and machine-learning-based approaches are superior to traditional or conventional statistical methods for predicting cardiovascular events. However, further studies evaluating the applicability of such algorithms in the real world are needed. In addition, improvements in wearable device data accuracy and better management of their application are required. Lastly, we discuss the challenges that the introduction of such technologies into routine healthcare may face.

Anxiety disorders (ADs) rank among the most prevalent mental health problems, especially in older people. The high risk and prevalence of ADs underscore the need for effective mental health care. Artificial intelligence has gained popularity in the diagnosis and prediction of medical conditions and diseases, including mental health problems. In this study, we developed an adapted bagging ensemble machine learning system that can be used for the diagnosis and prediction of ADs and can address the challenges posed by extremely imbalanced data from the Trinity-Ulster-Department of Agriculture study. Statistical techniques were used to identify the risk factors for ADs. Feature selection and feature engineering were conducted based on the analysis of biomarker risk factors. Five machine learning methods have been used in the developed system to build weak learner submodels, yielding promising prediction results. Some risk factors were identified. These findings will benefit the early prediction of ADs in our future studies.