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CV Therapeutics Announces Archives of Internal Medicine Publication of Study Showing 20 Percent of Heart Attack Patients in Premier Registry Experienced Angina at One Year 

CV Therapeutics, Inc. NASDAQ: CVTX today announced that the Archives of Internal Medicine published results of a major study demonstrating that one in five patients studied experienced chest pain one year after a myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, and that this angina was associated with significantly elevated rates of depression among cardiac patients in the registry. . . .

Patients with angina after one year also were more likely to smoke (p<0.001) and undergo revascularization (p<0.001). In addition, the study revealed that 21 percent of the patients with angina in the study suffered daily or weekly angina attacks. . . .

Of 1,957 post-MI patients, 389 (19.9 percent) reported angina one year after MI. Among the outpatient variables, patients with angina at one year were more likely to continue smoking, to undergo revascularization after index hospitalization (percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft) and to have significant new, persistent or transient depressive symptoms.

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