Association between self-reported functional capacity measures and postoperative myocardial injury in patients undergoing noncardiac surgeries

This international multicentric prospective observational study including more than 2000 patients ≥45 years old having elective, in-patient, elevated-risk noncardiac surgery showed that self-reported functional capacity measures do not improve the prediction of myocardial injury in the context of no systematic surveillance towards this complication.Conversely, a post-hoc analysis revealed a significant new prognostic information provided by self-reported functional capacity measures in centres with routine high-sensitivity troponin T monitoring.This finding is important in terms of association between postoperative myocardial injury and patients' outcomes and the ongoing trials assessing measures to prevent this complication.