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Objetivo: Avaliar o significado da evidência da isquemia miocárdica e a ocorrência de eventos cardiovasculares na Síndrome Cardíca X (SCX), comparando com doença coronária obstrutiva inicial (DAC <- 50 por cento). Métodos: Estudo observacional de coorte, em, amostra de 605 pacientes (população fonte de 5.137 indivíduos), com ecocardiografia sob estresse físico (EEF) positiva para isquemia miocárdica, os quais foram submetidos à cineangiocoronariografia, e divididos, posteriormente, em 2 grupos: G1 (SCX, n=64) e G2 (DAC<- 50 por cento, n=84). Os pacientes foram comparados quanto às características clínicas, parâmetros ergométricos e ecocardiográficos, e seguidos po +- 43,8 meses (mínimo de 12 meses e máximo de 85 meses), quanto ao surgimento de ngina típica, infarto agudo do miocárdico...
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Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Angina Microvascular/complicações , Angina Microvascular/diagnóstico , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/complicações , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/diagnóstico , Ecocardiografia sob Estresse/métodos , Ecocardiografia sob Estresse , Isquemia Miocárdica/diagnóstico , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in diabetic patients. Although exercise echocardiography (EE) is established as a useful method for diagnosis and stratification of risk for CAD in the general population, there are few studies on its value as a prognostic tool in diabetic patients. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the value of EE in predicting cardiac events in diabetics. METHODS: 193 diabetic patients, 97 males, 59.8 +/- 9.3 yrs (mean +/- SD) were submitted to EE between 2001 and 2006 and followed from 7 to 65 months with median of 29 months by phone calls and personal interviews with patients and their primary physician, and reviewing medical records and death certificates. The end points were cardiac events, defined as non-fatal myocardial infarction, late myocardial revascularization and cardiac death. Sudden death without another explanation was considered cardiac death. Survival free of end points was estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. RESULTS: Twenty-six cardiac events were registered in 24 individuals during the follow-up. The rates of cardiac events were 20.6 and 7% in patients with positive and negative EE, respectively (p < 0.001). Predictors of cardiac events included sedentary lifestyle, with RR of 2.57 95%CI [1.09 to 6.02] (P = 0.03) and positive EE, with RR 3.63, 95%CI [1.44 to 9.16] (P = 0.01). Patients with positive EE presented higher rates of cardiac events at 12 months (6.8% vs. 2.2%), p = 0.004. CONCLUSION: EE is a useful method to predict cardiac events in diabetic patients with suspected or known CAD.
