Use of Stress Echocardiography to Predict Mortality in Patients With Diabetes and Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease
Why the study?
Does stress echocardiography predict all-cause mortality in patients with diabetes and known or suspected CAD?
Population
937 patients with diabetes and known or suspected coronary artery disease, mean age 59 +/- 13 years, 529…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 3.9 +/- 2.3 years
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Discussion
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Implication
Stress echo may refine mortality risk stratification in diabetic CAD; leaves open impact on management pending prospective trials.
Structured PICO
Does stress echocardiography predict all-cause mortality in patients with diabetes and known or suspected CAD?
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Population
937 patients with diabetes and known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), mean age 59 +/- 13 years, 529 men. Indications included symptom evaluation (42%) and follow-up of known CAD (58%).
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Intervention
Stress echocardiography using exercise (n=333) or standard dobutamine stress (n=604)
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Outcome
All-cause mortality at mean 3.9 +/- 2.3 years follow-uphard clinical
Stress echocardiography provides independent and incremental prognostic value for predicting all-cause mortality in diabetic patients with known or suspected CAD.
Cite This Study
Marwick et al. (2002) studied this question.