Myocardial Ischemic Burden and Differences in Prognosis Among Patients With and Without Diabetes: Results From the Multicenter International REFINE SPECT Registry.
Donghee HanAlan RozanskiHeidi GransarTali SharirAndrew J EinsteinMathews B FishTerrence D RuddyPhilipp A KaufmannAlbert J SinusasEdward J MillerTimothy M BatemanSharmila DorbalaMarcelo Di CarliJoanna X LiangLien-Hsin HuGuido GermanoDamini DeyDaniel S BermanPiotr J SlomkaPublished in: Diabetes care (2019)
For every level of TPD >0%, even a very minimal deficit of 0% < TPD < 1%, the MACE risk was higher in the patients with diabetes compared with patients without diabetes. Patients with diabetes with minimal ischemia had comparable MACE risk as patients without diabetes with significant ischemia.