The impact of novel exercise criteria and indices for the diagnostic and prognostic ability of exercise testing.

Journal article

Exercise testing (ET) stands as one of the most easy, affordable, cost effective, non invasive methods for diagnosing coronary heart disease. Its sensitivity, specificity and prognostic value, especially in the prime era of its implementation in the cardiac diagnostic procedure, is relatively limited. Novel exercise criteria and indices based either on ST segment changes or ST segment independent parameters, such as "Athens QRS score", have greatly improved the diagnostic ability and accuracy...

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Authors: Michaelides, A; Tousoulis, D; Raftopoulos, L; Antoniades, C; Tsiachris, D

• Journal: International journal of cardiology
• Volume: 143
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 119-123
• Publication date: 2010-08-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2010.02.033
• EISSN: 1874-1754
• ISSN: 0167-5273
• Language: English
• Keywords: Prognosis; Coronary Artery Disease; Humans; Sensitivity and Specificity; Exercise Test; Reproducibility of Results