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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Jun;7(6):593–604. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.10.021

Figure 3. Risk of CAD Death or MI for Moderate-Severe Ischemia.

Figure 3

The median rates of CAD death or MI (%/year) on the basis of moderate-severe ischemia on stress nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging and stress echocardiography are shown. This narrative review highlights selected published evidence of rates of CAD death or MI for stress nuclear imaging and echocardiography; the dashed lines show the interquartile range of the CAD event rates (per year). The expected rate of CAD death or MI across all of the stress imaging modalities is ~4% to 6%/year. There are limitations to our median estimate, including that this was not a systematic review because of differential sample size, variable length of follow-up, and the use of mortality only or revascularization as an endpoint. MI = myocardial infarction; other abbreviation as in Figure 1.