While echocardiographic screening for structural heart disease is recommended in patients with a family history of cardiac arrest or hereditary conditions affecting the heart or great vessels, whether echocardiographic screening is warranted in the general population is unknown. […]
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No benefit from screening asymptomatic type 2 diabetics for CAD
Should patients with type 2 diabetes be screened for coronary artery disease if asymptomatic? In the DIAD study (Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics), 1123 patients with type 2 diabetes and no symptoms of coronary artery disease (CAD) were randomly assigned to be screened with adenosine-stress myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) or to no screening. The […]