Prognostic value of exercise echocardiography in patients with diabetes mellitus and known or suspected coronary artery disease.
To assess the prognostic value of exercise echocardiography in subjects who had diabetes, we studied 214 patients who had 28 hard cardiac events (cardiac death in 15, myocardial infarction in 13) during a follow-up of 44 +/- 16 months. Independent risk factors for predicting cardiac events were insulin therapy (odds ratio 2.313), peak left ventricular ejection fraction (odds ratio 0.973), and ischemia detected by exercise echocardiography (odds ratio 2.513).
Department of Cardiology, Juan Canalejo Hospital, Coruña, Spain. irisgarrido@secardiologia.es
Iris Paula
IP
Garrido
Jesús
J
Peteiro
Juan
J
García-Lara
Lorenzo
L
Montserrat
Guillermo
G
Aldama
José-Manuel
JM
Vázquez-Rodríguez
Nemesio
N
Alvarez
Alfonso
A
Castro-Beiras
D000368:Aged; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007328:Insulin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D007328:Insulin