Risks and benefits of optimised medical and revascularisation therapy in elderly patients with angina--on-treatment analysis of the TIME trial. |
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Authors: | Christoph Kaiser Gabriela M Kuster Paul Erne Wolfgang Amann Barbara Naegeli Stefan Osswald Peter Buser Heinz Schl?pfer Wolfgang Brett Hans-Reinhard Zerkowski Christian Schindler Matthias Pfisterer |
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Affiliation: | Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. |
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Abstract: | AIM: To assess treatment effects of optimised medical therapy and PCI or CABG surgery on one-year outcome in patients 75 years old with chronic angina. METHODS AND RESULTS: On-treatment analysis of the TIME data: all re-vascularised patients (REVASC n=174: 112 randomised to revascularisation and 62 to drugs with late revascularisation) were compared to all patients on continued drug therapy (MED n=127: 86 randomised to drugs and 41 to revascularisation only). Baseline characteristics of both groups were similar (age 80 +/- 4 years). Risk of death at one year (adjusted hazard ratio (HR)=1.31; 95%-CI: 0.58-2.99; P=0.52) and of death/infarction (adjusted hazard RATIO=1.77; 95%-CI 0.91-3.41; P=0.09) were comparable between REVASC and MED patients. Furthermore, the risk of death within 30 days was even slightly lower among REVASC patients (unadjusted hazard RATIO=0.73; 95%-CI: 0.21-2.53; P=0.98). Overall, REVASC patients had greater improvements in symptoms and well-being than MED patients (P<0.01). Surgical patients had similar mortality rates as angioplasty patients, but they also had greater symptomatic improvements (P<0.01). CONCLUSION: Treated medically, elderly patients with chronic angina have a similarly high 30-day and one-year mortality as patients of the same age being re-vascularised; however, they can expect lower improvements in symptoms and well being. |
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Keywords: | Aging Angina Coronary disease Mortality Quality of life Revascularisation |
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