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CLINICAL RESEARCH: CARDIAC IMAGING

Impact of Body Mass Index on Cardiac Mortality in Patients With Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Xingping Kang, MD^_*, Leslee J. Shaw, PhD, FACC^_*,, Sean W. Hayes, MD^_*,, Rory Hachamovitch, MD, MSc, FACC, Aiden Abidov, MD, PhD^_*, Ishac Cohen, PhD^_*, John D. Friedman, MD, FACC^_*,, Louise E.J. Thomson, MB^_*,, Donna Polk, MD, MPH, FACC^_*,, Guido Germano, PhD, FACC^_*, and Daniel S. Berman, MD, FACC^_*,,_*

^_* Department of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), and CSMC Burns & Allen Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Manuscript received May 16, 2005; revised manuscript received November 3, 2005, accepted November 11, 2005.

^_* Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Daniel S. Berman, Department of Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Room 1258, Los Angeles, California 90048. (Email: bermand{at}cshs.org).

This study was presented in part at the American Heart Association Annual Scientific Session, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 7–10, 2004. Todd Miller, MD, FACC, acted as guest editor.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the prognostic value of myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (MPS).

BACKGROUND: The prognostic value of MPS in the obese has not been evaluated.

METHODS: We studied 4,720 patients with and 10,019 patients without known coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent rest Tl-201/stress Tc-99m sestamibi MPS, including 5,233 gated MPS studies and followed up (mean 2.7 to 3.2 years). Patients were categorized as normal weight (BMI 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m²), overweight (BMI 25.0 to 29.9 kg/m²), or obese (BMI 30.0 kg/m²).

RESULTS: Unadjusted annual rates of cardiac death (CD) rose versus stress MPS abnormalities in all weight groups (p < 0.001). Obese or overweight patients with or without known CAD who had normal MPS were at low CD risk (<1%/year), similar to normal weight patients. In CAD, obese and overweight patients with abnormal MPS had lower rates of CD compared with normal weight patients (p < 0.01). In patients with low ejection fraction (EF) by gated MPS, those with normal weight had highest CD rate (p = 0.001). Multivariable models revealed that BMI was not a predictor of CD in suspected CAD patients (hazard ratio [HR] 0.99; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.95 to 1.02) but was an independent inverse predictor of CD in known CAD patients (HR 0.95; 95% CI 0.92 to 0.98), especially in women, adenosine stress, low EF, or abnormal perfusion.

CONCLUSIONS: Normal MPS was associated with low risk of CD in patients of all weight categories. In patients with known CAD undergoing MPS, obese and overweight patients were at lower risk of CD over three years than normal weight patients.

Abbreviations and Acronyms   BMI = body mass index   CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting   CAD = coronary artery disease   CHF = chronic heart failure   EDV = end-diastolic volume   EF = ejection fraction   ESV = end-systolic volume   LV = left ventricle/ventricular   LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction   MPS = myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography   PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention   SPECT = single-photon emission computed tomography

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