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7671352

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-10-19
pubmed:abstractText
Evaluations of therapy for the treatment of angina have traditionally consisted of a combination of objective measures, such as exercise tolerance, and subjective markers, such as angina attack rate. Recently, the need to assess "how patients feel"--their quality of life (QOL)--has been regarded with increasing importance. Standard instruments are available to assess QOL and its change after therapeutic intervention. Although QOL instruments have been used to assess the efficacy of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), they have not been used previously to compare the impact of PTCA with that of medical therapy in patients with angina pectoris. We report on the changes in self-assessed QOL among patients randomly assigned to treatment by PTCA or medical therapy and relate these measurements to changes in exercise performance and coronary angiograms.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0009-7322
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
92
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1710-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
A comparison of quality of life scores in patients with angina pectoris after angioplasty compared with after medical therapy. Outcomes of a randomized clinical trial. Veterans Affairs Study of Angioplasty Compared to Medical Therapy Investigators.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Randomized Controlled Trial, Multicenter Study