Long-term outcomes after stress echocardiography in real-world practice: a 5-year follow-up of the UK EVAREST study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Stress echocardiography is widely used to assess patients with chest pain. The clinical value of a positive or negative test result to inform on likely longer-term outcomes when applied in real-world practice across a healthcare system has not been previously reported.

Methods and results

Five thousand five hundred and three patients recruited across 32 UK NHS hospitals between 2018 and 2022, participating in the EVAREST/BSE-NSTEP prospective cohort study, with data on medical outcomes up to 2023 available from NHS England were included in the analysis. Stress echocardiography results were related to outcomes, including death, procedures, hospital admissions, and relevant cardiovascular diagnoses, based on Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox proportional hazard ratios (HRs).

SUBMITTER: Woodward W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11781832 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature