Ethnic Differences in the Prognostic Value of Stress Technetium-99m Tetrofosmin Gated Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

The current results from a large observational registry reveal that exercise and pharmacologic stress SPECT effectively predicts major cardiovascular events in a large cohort of African-American and Hispanic patients evaluated for suspected myocardial ischemia. These results provide further evidence that ethnic minority patient populations have a worsening outcome related to cardiovascular disease.