Why the study?
Does exercise radionuclide ventriculography accurately diagnose coronary artery disease in hypertensive patients with chest pain?
Population
146 patients with chest pain, comprising 37 hypertensive and 109 normotensive patients
Comparison
Exercise radionuclide ventriculography vs Coronary arteriography
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Caution against relying on exercise radionuclide ventriculography for CAD screening in hypertensives; leaves open validation of alternative diagnostics.
Does exercise radionuclide ventriculography accurately diagnose coronary artery disease in hypertensive patients with chest pain?
Exercise radionuclide ventriculography is inadequate as a screening test for coronary atherosclerosis in hypertensive patients with chest pain due to a lack of discriminatory findings.
Wasserman et al. (1984) studied this question.
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