BACKGROUND What people believe about their illness may affect how they cope with it. It has been suggested that such beliefs stem from those commonly held within society. This study compared the beliefs held by people with angina, regarding causation and coping in angina, with the beliefs of their friends who do not suffer from angina. METHODS Postal survey using the York Angina Beliefs Quest...

Objective: To assess the performance of a shortened version of the Rose angina questionnaire focusing on exertional chest pain. Methods: Cross sectional analysis of 3987 women aged 60 to 79 years from 23 British towns. The performances of definite Rose angina (using data from the full Rose angina questionnaire) and exertional chest pain (using data from a subset of three questions from the Rose...

In the 1980s, our group published a series of articles using invasive angiography (ICA) to investigate the pathogenesis of unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction.1–5 In individuals in whom an angina-producing lesion could be assessed angiographically and the vessel was 100% occluded at the time of angiography, the qualitative morphology of these lesions was different from that of lesio...

INTRODUCTION Coronary artery bypass graft is often the treatment of choice for patients who suffer from unstable angina. We do not know whether this condition adds morbidity in this scenario. OBJECTIVE To compare the outcomes of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft with unstable angina framework with patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft showed no unstable angina. ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of angina from 1971 to 1994 was relatively flat for whites and blacks. We ask whether the prevalence and medical history of angina have changed during 1988 to 2012. METHODS AND RESULTS We used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from 1988 to 2004 and the data from the six 2-year surveys from 2001 to 2012. We calculated trends in both crude and s...