Abstract

Introduction

Coronary artery disease is leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The early detection and treatment of CAD is vital to prevent complications with non invasive tests like stress tests   Exercise treadmill testing (ETT) is a well-validated, inexpensive test that can be used for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary artery diseases (CAD). In addition to identifying patients who have exercise-induced ECG changes suggestive of ischemia, ETT also provides important data on exercise capacity, blood pressure, and heart rate response to exercise, symptoms, and the presence of exercise-induced arrhythmias. In a person at high risk for coronary heart disease (e.g., advanced age, multiple coronary risk factors), an abnormal TMT is very predictive of the presence of coronary heart disease (> 90% accurate). In the present study ,we studied the patients with changing risk factor profiles along with increasing incidence of CAD in younger population (even as young as 30-35 years),  in females versus males by TMT and also the correlation of TMT results with angiogram findings in the predictability of CAD