Crenças dos portadores de doença coronariana, segundo o referencial de Rokeach, sobre o comportamento de fumar Creencias de los portadores de enfermedad coronaria, según el referencial de Rokeach sobre el comportamiento de fumar Beliefs of patients with coronary disease according to Rokeach's theoretical framework concerning the habit of smoking

Estudo observacional, descritivo, que objetivou identificar as crenças segundo a centralidade/perifericidade, e verificou como elas interferem no comportamento de pacientes portadores de coronariopatias, para aderirem ou não ao tabagismo. Utilizamos um dos referenciais de crenças mencionados na literatura, que evidenciou, na análise das entrevistas realizadas com 56 pacientes portadores de doença coronariana, internados em uma instituição hospitalar do Estado de São Paulo, um predomínio de crenças primitivas de consenso zero e uma tendência à centralidade, o que permitiu identificar fatores que dificultam a adesão às recomendações terapêuticas feitas pelos profissionais da saúde e inferir sobre a resistência para mudança de comportamento que tal população possui.<br>Estudio observacional, descriptivo que buscó identificar las creencias según la centralidad/perifericidad y verificó como ellas interfieren en el comportamiento de pacientes portadores de coronariopatías para convertirse o no en fumadores. Utilizamos unos de los referenciales de creencias, que evidenció, en el análisis de las entrevistas realizadas con 56 pacientes portadores de la enfermedad coronariana internados en una institución hospitalaria del Estado de São Paulo, un predominio de creencias primitivas de consenso cero y una tendencia a la centralidad que permitió identificar factores obstaculizadores para la aceptación de las recomendaciones terapéuticas realizadas por los profesionales de salud e inferir sobre la resistencia para el cambio de comportamiento que dicha población posee.<br>This is a descriptive observational study that aimed at identifying beliefs according to centrality/periphery by verifying how they interfere in the behavior of patients with coronary diseases regarding their adherence or non-adherence to smoking. The belief-related frameworks mentioned in the literature were used and findings, pointed out from the analysis of the interviews with 56 people with coronary diseases who were inpatients in a hospital in the interior of São Paulo State, showed a prevalence of primitive beliefs with zero consensus and a tendency to centrality that enabled the identification of hiding factors to the adherence to therapeutic recommendations by health professionals as well as inferences concerning the reluctance to behavioral changes presented by the population

The conundrum of detecting stable angina pectoris in the community setting

Individuals with undetected stable angina pectoris (SAP) as a consequence of undiagnosed coronary artery disease are at high risk of poor quality of life and a premature fatal event (for example, sudden cardiac death out of hospital). If the extent and distribution of SAP are accurately identified at the population level, clinical screening could potentially be targeted and evaluated to optimize the management and secondary prevention of underlying coronary artery disease. Common measures of SAP in populations have important limitations. Measures chosen to identify such cases should reflect their validity as measures of undiagnosed SAP, currently symptomatic angina or lifetime diagnosis of angina