Clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with microvascular angina: an international and prospective cohort study by the Coronary Vasomotor Disorders International Study (COVADIS) Group.
Hiroaki ShimokawaAkira SudaJun TakahashiColin BerryPaolo Guido CamiciFilippo CreaJavier EscanedThomas Joseph FordEric YiiJuan-Carlos KaskiTakahiko KiyookaPuja K MehtaPeter OngYukio OzakiCarl J PepineOrnella RimoldiBasmah SafdarUdo SechtemKenichi TsujitaSatoshi YasudaJohn F BeltrameC Noel Bairey MerzPublished in: European heart journal (2021)
This first international study provides novel evidence that MVA is an important health problem regardless of sex or ethnicity that a diagnosis of MVA portends a substantial risk for MACE associated with hypertension and previous history of CAD, and that women have a lower quality of life than men despite the comparable prognosis.