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There is considerable evidence to confirm health inequalities worldwide, and particularly regarding angina. Clinical decision-making is known to be both consciously and unconsciously influenced by a patient's demographics (including ethnical and social backgournds), by systemic biases and a lack of qualitative...

COVADIS’ study on MVA primarily compared patterns of abnormal coronary vasomotion between Caucasian and Japanese populations primarily, and reported ethnic differences in clinical presentations. However, these may be explained by MVA’s pathophysiological mechanisms’ differing prevalence from population to population. The relationship...

Sucato et al acknowledge that invasive methods used in CMD screening are difficult to perform, expensive, and risky for the patient. Their article reviews the diversity of blood markers associated with CMD pathophysiology whose non-invasive identification could serve as an alternative...

Stable angina or angina pectoris is a symptom of myocardial ischemia and a warning sign of underlying coronary disease. In the United States, it affects 10 million people. Therefore, it is critical to not only recognize the signs and symptoms but...

J. Gavara et al (Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain) explored the potential of “a combined assessment of ischaemic burden by vasodilator stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance and presence of multivessel disease by angiography to predict the effect of revascularisation on all-cause...

The ISCHEMIA trial is a large, multicentric trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The main trial compared coronary revascularization and optimal medical therapy (OMT) vs OMT alone in 5179 patients enrolled after a stress test. It is...

CHD is characterised by ischemic lesions and hypoxia, and one of its most notable symptoms is angina. As such, 175 CHD patients were divided into 3 groups: stable angina group, unstable angina group, and acute myocardial infarction group. As their conditions...

Presentations with suspected stable angina are common yet determining an accurate diagnosis is frequently challenging. It is in this context that a role has emerged for the most recent generation of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays. High-sensitivity troponin (hsTn) has demonstrated prognostic...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) can cause angina, myocardial infarction, sudden death and heart failure. Its treatments include optimal medical therapy (OMT), surgical revascularization and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) revascularization. This review dissects the results of two studies, COURAGE (2007) and ISCHEMIA...

According to T. Pezel et al.’s multivariate analysis, silent ischemia and unrecognised myocardial infarction are strongly associated with increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE). These conditions, detectable by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are thus valuable long-term predictors for...