Risk Stratification of Diabetics With Stress Testing

Risk stratification of diabetics with stress testing: can we do better?

Oxidative stress assays for disease risk stratification.

Despite the fact that oxidative stress is a significant aetiological factor in several degenerative diseases, its measurement is rarely a part of "routine analyses" performed in hospital clinical chemistry laboratories. This situation is likely to change, as interest in this topic is increasing rapidly. Here we review the pertinent literature, with an assessment of assays for oxidative stress, ...

Risk stratification with electrocardiographic-gated dobutamine stress imaging.

We read with interest the study by Navare et al. (1). We congratulate the authors for the original contribution by showing that the combination of function and perfusion assessment with this technique improves risk stratification. We were, however, concerned about the high event rate of 2.4% in patients with normal perfusion and function. The investigators pointed to the fact that inability to ...

Evaluation of the treadmill stress testing for risk stratification after acute myocardial infarction.

The recent decline in postinfarction mortality reflects the success of the most recent therapeutical proposals incorporated into clinical practice . Despite this evolutional enhancement, mostly due to the use of thrombolytic agents, an increase in the recurrence of thrombotic phenomena, such as reinfarction and unstable angina, has occurred creating the need for strategies that adequately ident...

Reassessment of treadmill stress testing for risk stratification in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by thrombolysis.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the role of a treadmill stress test for identifying patients at risk of recurrent ischaemic events after acute myocardial infarction treated by thrombolysis. BACKGROUND The natural history of myocardial infarction has changed with the introduction of thrombolytic treatment; there is a lower mortality but a higher incidence of recurrent thrombotic events (reinfarction, u...