Prognostic stratification of diabetic patients by exercise echocardiography
Abdou Elhendy, MD, PhD*,
Adelaide M. Arruda, MD*,
Douglas W. Mahoney, MSc and
Patricia A. Pellikka, MD, FACC*
* Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier curves for survival free of hard cardiac events in patients with normal exercise echocardiogram and in patients with abnormalities in single-vessel and multivessel distributions.
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Figure 2 Cumulative event rates from one year to five years according to the presence and extent of exercise echocardiographic abnormalities.
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