Key result
Women with chronic CAD experience worse angina than men, unexplained by GDMT or revascularization.
Why the study?
Do women with chronic CAD have worse angina-related health status compared to men?
Observational
Do women with chronic CAD have worse angina-related health status compared to men?
Women with chronic CAD experience worse angina-related health status than men despite similar treatment, suggesting other mechanisms like microvascular dysfunction may play a role.
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May warrant microvascular assessment for angina in women with CAD; leaves open mechanisms beyond GDMT and revascularization.
Women with chronic CAD in ISCHEMIA had worse angina-related health status than men at baseline and 1-year. Differences were not explained by demographic or clinical characteristics, intensity of GDMT, or completeness of revascularization. It is thus important to consider other factors that may mediate these results, including differences in nociception, coronary microvascular dysfunction and/or vasospasm.
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Grodzinsky et al. (2026) conducted an observational in chronic CAD. Female sex vs. Male sex was evaluated on angina-related health status. Women with chronic CAD had worse angina-related health status than men at baseline and 1-year, which was not explained by demographics, GDMT intensity, or completeness of revascularization.
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