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Acceptable reference standard? Yes Coronary angiography with a reference
All tests standard threshold of ≥ 70% stenosis

Acceptable delay between tests? Unclear Likely to be short delay between tests.
All tests

Partial verification avoided? No 38 patients (23 with and 15 without in-
All tests ducible ischaemia on DSE) underwent
coronary angiography after DSE

Differential verification avoided? Yes Disease status (CAD) diagnosed by coro-
All tests nary angiography.
Incorporation avoided? Yes Disease status (CAD) diagnosed by coro-
All tests nary angiography.

Reference standard results blinded? Unclear Not reported.
All tests

Index test results blinded? Unclear Not reported.
All tests
Relevant clinical information? Yes Relevant clinical information was provided
All tests regarding the performance and analysis of
both the index and reference tests

Uninterpretable results reported? Yes No results were reported to be uninter-
All tests pretable.

Withdrawals explained? Yes All patients missing from the final analysis
All tests were accounted for

De Lima 2003
Clinical features and settings Clinical features
• Patients presenting for pre-transplant cardiac evaluation based on the presence of
at least one of the following characteristics: age > 50 years, DM, angina, previous MI or
stroke, left ventricular dysfunction, and extracardiac atherosclerosis. Subjects without
these characteristics were not studied because they have a low frequency of coronary
events.
Setting
• Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil
Participants • Number: 150 (data from 24 participants excluded: lost to follow-up (5); declined
to continue (19))
• DM: 30%
• Angina pectoris: 25%
• Hypertension: 95%

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