[Diagnostic exercise tests in adult men with no symptoms or with non-angina complaints].
OBJECTIVE
to investigate clinical and ECG stress test differences in middle aged males either asymptomatic or with non-anginal symptoms and no previous myocardial infarction.


METHODS
retrospective stress data file analysis.


METHODS
Outpatients at the stress test laboratory.


METHODS
296 consecutive patients referred to diagnostic treadmill testing from January-1988 to June-1989.


RESULTS
no differences were found between symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals in the 17 variables analysed.


CONCLUSIONS
despite the fact that patients with chest symptoms even if obviously non-anginal have an increased coronary disease prevalence when compared with age-matched asymptomatics, this difference seems to insufficient to be demonstrated by the ECG stress test results, making questionable the practical relevance of this symptomatic classification.
Coelho
G
G
Faculdade de Medicina do Porto e Serviço de Cardiologia do Hospital de S. João.
Teixeira
M
M
Campos
J M
JM
Rocha-Gonçalves
F
F
Cerqueira-Gomes
M
M
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies
Provas de esforço diagnósticas em homens adultos assintomáticos ou com queixas não anginosas.