OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines for @entity1062 ( @entity1062 ) after successful coronary revascularization (CR) using the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation experience. BACKGROUND: The ACC/AHA guidelines state that @entity1062 within three years of successful CR is not useful. METHODS: The 1,678 @entity1 randomized to CR by either angioplasty or bypass surgery were required to take symptom-limited treadmill tests one, three and five years after revascularization. RESULTS: @entity1 who took the test at each specified time had a much lower subsequent two-year mortality than those who did not (1.9% vs. 9.4%, 3.5% vs. 12.6% and 3.3% vs. 11.0% at one, three and five years, respectively, after CR [p < 0.0001 for each]). Exercise parameters at the one- and three-year test did not improve a multivariable model of survival after including clinical parameters. Exercising to Bruce stage 3 or generating a Duke score >-6 were independently predictive of two-year survival after the five-year test. ST @entity308 on the one-year test was associated with more revascularizations (relative risk = 1.6; p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: @entity1 with stable multivessel coronary disease who took a protocol-mandated exercise test at one, three and five years after revascularization were at low risk for mortality in the two years subsequent to each test. Exercise parameters did not improve prediction of mortality in the two years after the one- and three-year tests. The ACC/AHA guidelines on @entity1062 after CR (no value for routine testing in stable @entity1 for three years after revascularization) are supported by these results.

Risk stratification after successful coronary revascularization: the lack of a role for routine XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['depression'] @entity1062 :: ('MESH:D013736', 'Disease') :: ['EXT', 'exercise testing']
@entity1062 :: (MESH:D013736,Disease) :: ['exercise testing']
