title: [Diagnostic exercise tests in adult men with no symptoms or with non-angina complaints].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina do Porto e Serviço de Cardiologia do Hospital de S. João.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coelho
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rocha-Gonçalves
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cerqueira-Gomes
mesh_terms: 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
vernacular_title: Provas de esforço diagnósticas em homens adultos assintomáticos ou com queixas não anginosas.