BMJ  2006;332 (4 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7536.0-c

Scoring prognosis in stable angina

In stable angina, six clinical factors are independently most predictive of adverse outcome: comorbidity, diabetes, shorter symptom duration, increasing symptom severity, ventricular dysfunction, and resting electrocardiography changes. Daly and colleagues (p 262) carried out a cohort study of more than 3000 patients from 156 European outpatient cardiology clinics who had a new clinical diagnosis of stable angina. Using those six simple, readily available factors, they constructed a score to estimate the probability of death or myocardial infarction within one year after a patient presents with stable angina.

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