Prognostic value of exercise radionuclide angiography in a population-based cohort of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease

Low high-density lipoprotein predicts death in patients with mild left ventricular dysfunction regardless of coronary atherosclerosis

“…On the contrary, the number of coronary arteries affected by significant coronary stenosis at angiography is a well known powerful predictor of cardiac death, this variable being largely used for risk stratification of hard cardiac events [4].…”