Cardiology Letters 2019, 28(4):168-173

CLARIFY registry: focus on the subgroup of patients with stable angina pectoris

Murín J¹, Kamenský G²

¹ I. interná klinika LFUK a UNB, Nemocnica Staré Mesto, Bratislava

² V. interná klinika LFUK a UNB, Nemocnica Ružinov, Bratislava, Slovenská republika

The CLARIFY registry helps us in focusing on patients with stable angina pectoris who are suffering from angina symptoms. It also helps us to compare characteristics of Slovak patients (55 persons) with the characteristics of European patients (without Slovakia, 4864 persons). Furthermore, it enables comparison of our treatments here. Slovak patients are more severely ill (more severe hypertension, obesity, diabetes, less non-smokers, less exercising patients, more patients suffered myocardial infarction, stroke and atrial fibrillation and more patients have heart failure). These patients are less frequent in achieving the targets of blood pressure (50% in Slovakia vs 49.2% in Europe), HbA1c (<7% it is 8% vs 10.6%), LDL-Ch ≤2.6 mmol/l (57.6% vs 39.6%) and heart rate ≤ 60 bpm (18.2% vs 22.6%). This is why we should increase our efforts in obesity prevention, in more intensive hypertension treatment, in diabetes treatment, hypolipidemic treatments, in smoking prevention, and also in the treatment of increased heart rate of our patients - everything with the aim of improving not only the quality of life of patients, but also improving their prognosis. Tab. 5, Ref. 19, on-line full text (Free, PDF) www.cardiologyletters.sks.sk

Keywords: stable angina pectoris; cardiovascular risk factors; metabolic syndrome; treatment of increased heart rate

Published: April 1, 2019  Show citation