AI Article Synopsis
- A study of 214 diabetes patients investigated the effectiveness of exercise echocardiography in predicting serious heart-related events over an average follow-up of about 44 months.
- During the follow-up period, there were 28 significant cardiac events, including 15 cardiac deaths and 13 myocardial infarctions.
- Key independent risk factors identified for predicting these events included insulin therapy, peak left ventricular ejection fraction, and ischemia detected through exercise echocardiography.
Article Abstract
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).
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