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ReviewIndian heart journal

Stress electrocardiography testing in coronary artery disease: Is it time for its swan song or to redefine its role in the modern era ?

Gnanasundaram Ananthasubramaniam, Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam

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Review in Indian heart journal. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Coronary computed tomography angiographyWorld journal of cardiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gnanasundaram AnanthasubramaniamApollo Hospitals, Chennai, India.
Karthikeyan AnanthasubramaniamHenry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, Heart and Vascular Institute, West Bloomfield, MI, USA. Electronic address: kananth1@hfhs.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress electrocardiography (sECG) or treadmill stress testing is a well validated noninvasive diagnostic modality available to clinicians at low cost yet providing valuable functional data for coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnostic and prognostic evaluation. With the advances in cardiac imaging in both functional and anatomic fronts and the existing limitations of sECG testing, this modality appears less favored worldwide as reflected in some recent guideline updates. We review the past present and future of sECG to provide a viewpoint on where it stands in CAD evaluation and if it will remain relevant as a diagnostic modality or be retired going forward. We also provide our perspectives on how sECG can co-exist with other modalities such as calcium scoring and discuss the role of such testing in the Indian population.

Indexed as

Coronary Artery DiseaseCoronary AngiographyElectrocardiographyExercise TestHumansPrognosisCardiac computed tomographyCoronary artery diseaseCoronary calcium scoringStress cardiac imagingStress electrocardiographyTreadmill stress testing

Identifiers

PMID35167825
PMCPMC9039687

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