Does diabetes supersede dobutamine stress echocardiography in predicting cardiac events in female patients?
DSE is a safe procedure to be used in > or = 60-year-old female patients and can provide informative prognostic information regarding all-cause deaths and cardiac events (including interventions) over a 4-year period. In addition we find that diabetes is a strong predictor of events regardless of DSE result.
Enhanced immune function observed with AHCC could be caused by attenuated concentrations of stress hormones and catecholamines.