The American journal of medicine
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To compare the relative value of clinical variables with dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography to predict cardiac events during long-term follow-up. Dobutamine stress echocardiography is increasingly used for the detection of coronary artery disease, but little is known of its prognostic value. ⋯ In a large cohort of unselected patients with chest pain syndromes, new wall motion abnormalities induced by dobutamine provide additional information for late cardiac events, independent of clinical variables.