Diagnosis of Women With ANOCA

To be part of this registry, you need to be a woman who has been diagnosed with ANOCA. Doctors will have done specific heart tests to confirm this, like measuring your myocardial perfusion reserve or coronary flow reserve, and these results must have been recorded within the last year. You also need to be experiencing angina symptoms quite often, based on a specific health questionnaire (your score would be less than 100 on the Seattle Angina Questionnaire).

There are a few reasons why you might not be able to join. You need to be 18 years old or older. Also, it's important that you are able to understand what the study involves and agree to take part freely (this is called giving informed consent). Finally, you need to be able to follow the simple steps of the study, which mainly involves your health records being used and potentially being invited to future studies.

If you decide to take part in this study, the main thing is that your existing health information will be used. This means researchers will look at details from your NHS electronic health records, such as your doctor visits, hospital stays, and the medications you take. This will help them understand how ANOCA affects women over time.

Crucially, you won't need to make any extra visits to a clinic or hospital for this study after you've joined. The researchers will gather information remotely. However, being part of this registry means you might be invited to take part in *other* future research studies that are testing new treatments for ANOCA. You would always have the choice whether or not to join those additional studies. The total duration of your participation in this registry will involve ongoing collection of your health record data over time to track long-term health.