Cardiovascular testing
Figure 1 shows the percentage of patients who underwent cardiovascular
testing by risk category and institution. The percentage of patients who
had an echocardiogram for both institutions was 18% for those in the
lowest SCD risk and 36% for those in the highest SCD risk. The
percentage of patients who had a stress test for both institutions was
18% for those in the lowest SCD risk and 23% for those in the highest
SCD risk. There were no significant differences between both
institutions. Higher risk was associated with a trend to increasing any
testing (p<0.01). Multivariate predictors of testing were SCD
score (2.3;95% CI 1.8-2.7), belonging to a minority group (0.88;95% CI
0.82-0.95), and being a women (0.82;95% CI 0.76-0.88).