Population
767 patients <70 years of age with chronic stable angina pectoris from the Angina Prognosis Study in…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May warrant attention to psychosomatic symptoms in stable angina with comorbidities; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
In patients with stable angina, concomitant diseases like prior myocardial infarction and heart failure are associated with more psychosomatic symptoms but less worry about the future, while angina severity does not appear to impact life satisfaction.
Billing et al. (2000) studied this question.
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