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IMPLICATIONS: An ever-present problem in the preoperative evaluation of patients with ischemic heart disease is that although such evaluations are based on Western data, these data must serve as the basis for determining perioperative risk in Japanese patients. To remedy this problem, we investigated perioperative complications in noncardiac surgery in Japan. We found that the incidence of perioperative cardiac complications and risk factors are similar to those of European and American patients, although it is generally very low among Japanese people.
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