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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 26.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2021 Sep 15;144(17):1380–1395. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.054439

Table 2.

Stress testing and CCTA findings by overall and by diabetes status

Characteristic All Participants
(N=5,900)
No Diabetes at Baseline
(N=3,347)
Diabetes at Baseline
(N=2,553)
P-value
Qualifying Stress Test Core Lab Interpretation
Ischemia Severity by Imaging Modality
 Stress Imaging Overall 4,504/5,900 (76.3%) 2,566/3,347 (76.7%) 1,938/2,553 (75.9%) 0.499
 Severity 0.293
  Severe 1,883/4,480 (42.0%) 1,110/2,553 (43.5%) 773/1,927 (40.1%)
  Moderate 2,058/4,480 (45.9%) 1,128/2,553 (44.2%) 930/1,927 (48.3%)
  Mild 317/4,480 (7.1%) 187/2,553 (7.3%) 130/1,927 (6.7%)
  None 222/4,480 (5.0%) 128/2,553 (5.0%) 94/1,927 (4.9%)
 Nuclear 3,020/5,898 (51.2%) 1,653/3,347 (49.4%) 1,367/2,551 (53.6%) <.001
 Severity 0.943
  Severe 1,085/3,003 (36.1%) 605/1,644 (36.8%) 480/1,359 (35.3%)
  Moderate 1,538/3,003 (51.2%) 819/1,644 (49.8%) 719/1,359 (52.9%)
  Mild 213/3,003 (7.1%) 128/1,644 (7.8%) 85/1,359 (6.3%)
  None 167/3,003 (5.6%) 92/1,644 (5.6%) 75/1,359 (5.5%)
 Echocardiogram 1,229/5,898 (20.8%) 767/3,347 (22.9%) 462/2,551 (18.1%) <.001
 Severity 0.288
  Severe 647/1,222 (52.9%) 417/763 (54.7%) 230/459 (50.1%)
  Moderate 438/1,222 (35.8%) 263/763 (34.5%) 175/459 (38.1%)
  Mild 88/1,222 (7.2%) 51/763 (6.7%) 37/459 (8.1%)
  None 49/1,222 (4.0%) 32/763 (4.2%) 17/459 (3.7%)
 CMR 255/5,898 (4.3%) 146/3,347 (4.4%) 109/2,551 (4.3%) <.001
 Severity 0.781
  Severe 151/255 (59.2%) 88/146 (60.3%) 63/109 (57.8%)
  Moderate 82/255 (32.2%) 46/146 (31.5%) 36/109 (33.0%)
  Mild 16/255 (6.3%) 8/146 (5.5%) 8/109 (7.3%)
  None 6/255 (2.4%) 4/146 (2.7%) 2/109 (1.8%)
 Exercise Tolerance Test (ETT) 1,394/5,898 (23.6%) 781/3,347 (23.3%) 613/2,551 (24.0%) <.001
 Severity 0.200
  Severe 1,176/1,338 (87.9%) 647/748 (86.5%) 529/590 (89.7%)
  Moderate 101/1,338 (7.5%) 64/748 (8.6%) 37/590 (6.3%)
  Mild 34/1,338 (2.5%) 22/748 (2.9%) 12/590 (2.0%)
  None 27/1,338 (2.0%) 15/748 (2.0%) 12/590 (2.0%)
CCTA Findings <.001
CCTA performed* 3,867/5,900 (65.5%) 2,310/3,347 (69.0%) 1,557/2,553 (61.0%)
Any Obstructive Disease ≥50% Stenosis by CCTA 3,791/3,795 (99.9%) 2,259/2,260 (100.0%) 1,532/1,535 (99.8%) 0.310
Multi-vessel Disease ≥50% Stenosis by CCTA 2,651/3,356 (79.0%) 1,533/1,999 (76.7%) 1,118/1,357 (82.4%) <.001
Vessels ≥50% Stenosis by CCTA <.001
 0 4/2,956 (0.1%) 1/1,788 (0.1%) 3/1,168 (0.3%)
 1 691/2,956 (23.4%) 458/1,788 (25.6%) 233/1,168 (19.9%)
 2 928/2,956 (31.4%) 577/1,788 (32.3%) 351/1,168 (30.1%)
 ≥3 1,333/2,956 (45.1%) 752/1,788 (42.1%) 581/1,168 (49.7%)
Anatomic Severity of CAD (modified Duke Prognostic Index) 0.003
6: 3-vessel severe stenosis (≥70%) or 2-vessel severe stenosis with proximal LAD 658/2,476 (26.6%) 369/1,505 (24.5%) 289/971 (29.8%)
5: 2-vessel severe stenosis, 1-vessel severe proximal LAD, or 3-vessel moderate stenosis (≥50%) 896/2,476 (36.2%) 537/1,505 (35.7%) 359/971 (37.0%)
4: 2-vessel moderate stenosis or 1-vessel severe stenosis other than proximal LAD 745/2,476 (30.1%) 480/1,505 (31.9%) 265/971 (27.3%)
3: 1-vessel moderate stenosis (≥50%) 177/2,476 (7.1%) 119/1,505 (7.9%) 58/971 (6.0%)
Specific Native Vessels with ≥50% Stenosis by Interpretable CCTA
 Left Main (LM) 40/3,803 (1.1%) 21/2,269 (0.9%) 19/1,534 (1.2%) 0.353
 Left Anterior Descending (LAD) 3,156/3,640 (86.7%) 1,865/2,177 (85.7%) 1,291/1,463 (88.2%) 0.031
 Proximal LAD 1,724/3,701 (46.6%) 1,022/2,210 (46.2%) 702/1,491 (47.1%) 0.616
 Left Circumflex 2,331/3,457 (67.4%) 1,340/2,069 (64.8%) 991/1,388 (71.4%) <.001
 Right Coronary Artery 2,285/3,324 (68.7%) 1,338/2,002 (66.8%) 947/1,322 (71.6%) 0.002
*

All CCTA were from ISCHEMIA patients and none from ISCHEMIA-CKD

Duke categories 1 and 2 (non-obstructive CAD or normal arteries) and 7 (left main stenosis ≥50%) were excluded from analysis because these findings were not consistent with eligibility for randomization after CCTA.