Prediction of cardiovascular events in clinically selected high-risk NIDDM patients. Prognostic value of exercise stress test and thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography.

158 high-risk NIDDM patients (105 men, aged 63 +/- 9 years) with two or more of the following criteria: age >= 65 years, active smoking, hypertension > 160/95 mmHg, hypercholesterolemia (cholesterol > 5.70 mmol/l or LDL > 3.10 mmol/l), peripheral artery disease, abnormal rest electrocardiogram, or microalbuminuria (20-200 micrograms/min).

Exercise stress test and thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography (exercise-stress scintigraphy in 77 patients, dipyridamole scintigraphy in 80 patients)

Composite of cardiac deaths or nonfatal myocardial infarctionhard clinical