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Media release from the Cardiovascular Research Unit at Auckland City Hospital
Monday 10 May 2021, 01:23 PM
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Professor Harvey White, cardiologist and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Unit at Auckland City Hospital has just published in JAMA Cardiology simultaneously with presentation at the virtual American College of cardiology Meeting in Atlanta. The manuscript is from the NIH funded ISCHEMIA trial for which Professor White was on the steering committee and in which New Zealand randomized 28 patients.
The trial compared two strategies in 5179 patients with moderate to severe angina randomised to stenting or bypass surgery compared with medical therapy. At 4 years there was no difference in mortality rates but angina was decreased in the stenting or bypass surgery group.