SAN DIEGO -- Nearly 80% of patients with type 2 diabetes who had silent myocardial ischemia revealed by stress myocardial perfusion imaging had a reversal of exercise-induced myocardial perfusion abnormalities when they were retested 3 years later.
The unexpected finding suggests that a substantial proportion of patients with type 2 diabetes and silent myocardial ischemia have the potential for improvement of stress myocardial perfusion imaging abnormalities with medical management, Dr. Frans J.T. Wackers said at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
"It is conceivable that this [result] is due to aggressive treatment of cardiovascular risk ...