“…As regards cardiac deaths, a constant and significantly increase from normal, mildly abnormal, and moderately-to-severely abnormal myocardial perfusion during pharmacologic stress (1.9% vs 2.7% vs 7.8%) or exercise stress (0.7% vs 1.0% vs 2.7%) was observed. Similarly, Nudi et al 1 demonstrated that the extent and severity of myocardial ischemia was also paralleled by a worsened cardiovascular outcome but the current study expands it now to octogenarians in a relatively high numbers of 517 individuals. Thus, current 1 and previous MPS studies 2,3,6,7 signify that MPS may indeed be of help in identifying elderly patients, even when exceeding 80 years, at risk for cardiovascular events.…”