The study is designed to see if stress heart imaging can be used as a screening exam in patients with diabetes and risk factors of developing of coronary artery disease and experiencing future cardiac events.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
205
Local Institution
Mission Viejo, California, United States
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Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States
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San Diego, California, United States
Examine the prevalence of ischemic heart disease in population of patients with diabetes mellitus and atypical chest pain.
Determine the accuracy of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and exercise tolerance testing (ETT) for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) in a subset of patients undergoing clinically indicated coronary angiography.
Determine the relative value of ETT, Duke Treadmill Score (DTS), MPI, ejection fraction (EF), clinical risk factors, and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) values for identifying patients at risk for cardiac events.
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