Chest Pain and Mental Stress-Induced Myocardial Ischemia: Sex Differences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia is a frequent phenomenon in patients with coronary artery disease. Women with coronary artery disease tend to have more mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia and more chest pain/anginal symptoms than men, but whether the association between mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia and angina burden differs in women and men is unknown.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study with experimental manipulation of 950 individuals with stable coronary artery disease. Chest pain/angina frequency in the previous 4 weeks was assessed with the Seattle Angina Questionnaire's angina-frequency subscale. Mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia was assessed with myocardial perfusion imaging during mental stress (standardized public

SUBMITTER: Pimple P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5910270 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature