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Circulation, Vol 64, 306-314, Copyright © 1981 by American Heart Association


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Risk stratification with low-level exercise testing 2 weeks after acute myocardial infarction

FM Weld, KL Chu, JT Bigger Jr and LM Rolnitzky

We enrolled 250 patients with acute myocardial infarction after they had been discharged from the cardiac intensive care unit. Among 236 patients who performed a low-level exercise test just before hospital discharge, 52 (22%) had exercise-induced ST depression of at least 0.1 mV in ECG lead V5, 102 (43%) had ventricular arrhythmias, and 121 (51%) had an exercise capacity of shorter than 6 minutes. We used multiple logistic regression analysis to investigate the association of exercise variables with 1-year cardiac mortality. Exercise duration and ventricular premature depolarizations (VPDs) were significantly associated with 1-year mortality after acute myocardial infarction, both with and without control of the influence of other exercise variables statistically; the association of exercise-induced ST depression with 1-year cardiac mortality was not statistically significant. Standardized regression coefficients showed that the variables ranked in the following order in terms of predictive value: exercise duration, VPD frequency and ST depression. Jackknife techniques showed that multiple logistic regression using the three exercise variables was highly accurate in predicting 1-year mortality.


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