Does coronary revascularisation improve HRQOL and angina symptoms in patients with chronic stable angina compared to community norms?
Coronary revascularization improves HRQOL to population norms in patients who become angina-free, but a significant proportion (especially women) continue to experience angina with worse HRQOL.
By four years following revascularisation, three fifths of patients with chronic stable angina were free of angina and their HRQOL was the same as or better than that of the general Swedish population. However, fewer than half of all women and two thirds of men who underwent revascularisation were angina-free after four years. Among patients with new or persistent angina, the HRQOL was worse than that in community norms.
Brorsson et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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