Alan Rozanski

TL;DR: Suggestions to improve the assessment of behavioral interventions include more complete delineation of the physiological mechanisms by which such interventions might work; increased use of new, more convenient "alternative" end points for behavioral intervention trials; development of specifically targeted behavioral interventions (based on profiling of patient factors); and evaluation of previously developed models of predicting behavioral change.

TL;DR: New approaches to improve the delivery of behavioral services and patient adherence to behavioral recommendations are reviewed, based on the understanding that psychosocial and behavioral risk factors for CAD are not only highly interrelated, but also require a sophisticated health care delivery system to optimize their effectiveness.

TL;DR: Emotionally relevant mental stress may be an important precipitant of myocardial ischemia--often silent--in patients with coronary artery disease and further examination of the pathophysiologic mechanisms responsible for myocardian ischemie induced by mental stress could have important implications for the treatment of transient myocardia.

TL;DR: In this large observational series with long-term follow-up, patients with significant ischaemia and without extensive scar were likely to realize a survival benefit from early revascularization, and the survival of patients with minimal ischaemic was superior with medical therapy without early Revascularization.

TL;DR: Extent and severity of myocardial hypoperfusion are important independent variables of prognosis in patients with suspected coronary artery disease and a prognostic model was defined that employs extent and severity as stress-dependent orthogonal variables.