A gender-specific blood-based gene expression score for assessing obstructive coronary artery disease in nondiabetic patients: Results of the Personalized Risk Evaluation and Diagnosis in the Coronary Tree (PREDICT) Trial
Lansky A, Elashoff MR, Ng V, McPherson J, Lazar D, Kraus WE, Voros S, Schwartz RS, Topol EJ. A gender-specific blood-based gene expression score for assessing obstructive coronary artery disease in nondiabetic patients: Results of the Personalized Risk Evaluation and Diagnosis in the Coronary Tree (PREDICT) Trial. American Heart Journal 2012, 164: 320-326. PMID: 22980297, DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2012.05.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsObstructive coronary artery diseaseCoronary artery diseaseMyocardial perfusion imagingGene expression scoreQuantitative coronary angiographyExpression scoreNondiabetic patientsArtery diseaseCardiac catheterizationCoronary angiographyBurden of CADSeverity of CADNoninvasive myocardial perfusion imagingProspective multicenter observational studyUnknown coronary artery diseaseSignificant coronary artery diseaseDiagnostic approachUnnecessary cardiac catheterizationMulticenter observational studyChest pain symptomsDiagnostic cardiac catheterizationAvailable noninvasive testsNoninvasive test resultsPositive predictive valueReliable diagnostic approach