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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2006; 48:1029-1039, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2006.06.025 (Published online 15 August 2006).
© 2006 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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What is the Prognostic Value of Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Using Rubidium-82 Positron Emission Tomography?

Keiichiro Yoshinaga, MD, Benjamin J.W. Chow, MD, Kathryn Williams, MS, Li Chen, MSc, Robert A. deKemp, PhD, Linda Garrard, RN, BScN, Alexander Lok-Tin Szeto, MD, May Aung, RT, Ross A. Davies, MD, Terrence D. Ruddy, MD and Rob S.B. Beanlands, MD*

Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


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  		Figure 1 (A) Risk-adjusted survival, free from hard cardiac events (cardiac death and nonfatal myocardial infarction), as a function of summed stress score (SSS). (B) Risk-adjusted survival, free from any (total) cardiac events, as a function of SSS.

 

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  		Figure 2 Unadjusted survival, free from any (total) cardiac events, as a function of normal and abnormal summed stress score on positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in patients referred for PET after recent single-photon emission computed tomography MPI.

 

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  		Figure 3 Unadjusted survival free from any (total) cardiac events as a function of normal and abnormal summed stress score on PET MPI in patients with obesity (body mass index ≥30 kg/m2). Abbreviations as in Figure 2.

 
 
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