Cardiac Outcomes After Screening for Asymptomatic Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes : The DIAD Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Young LH, Wackers FJ, Chyun DA, Davey JA, Barrett EJ, Taillefer R, Heller GV, Iskandrian AE, Wittlin SD, Filipchuk N, Ratner RE, Inzucchi SE, Investigators F. Cardiac Outcomes After Screening for Asymptomatic Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes : The DIAD Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA 2009, 301: 1547-1555. PMID: 19366774, PMCID: PMC2895332, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.476.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCoronary artery diseaseType 2 diabetesNonfatal myocardial infarctionAsymptomatic coronary artery diseaseMyocardial perfusion imagingCardiac event rateMyocardial infarctionCardiac deathMPI defectsCardiac outcomesEvent ratesScreened groupArtery diseaseSymptoms of CADRadionuclide myocardial perfusion imagingAsymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) studyHigh cardiac riskLow event ratesPositive predictive valueDetection of ischemiaPrimary medical preventionCoronary revascularizationDiabetes clinicIdentifies patientsControlled Trials