Cardiac tests in asymptomatic type 2 diabetics.

Objective: To evaluate the use of noninvasive procedures for the detection of myocardial ischemia and its relation with other coexistent clinical factors in patients with asymptomatic type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Subjects And Methods: A total of 42 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, aged 41-72 years with no clinical history suggestive of coronary heart disease, were evaluated for silent myocardial ischemia by stress cardiac exercise tolerance test (ETT), 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG), transthoracic echocardiography and stress myocardial perfusion scan using technetium-99m tetrofosmin.

Results: Eleven patients (26.