Coronary disease & ACS

A Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention for Invasively Confirmed ANOCA: The SAMCRO Randomized Trial

JACC Cardiovasc IntervPublished Randomised controlled trial

Primary result · Seattle Angina Questionnaire summary score (adjusted mean improvement)Result — go to the resultBetween-group difference 13.12 points 95% CI 9.68–16.56

Authors' conclusion

In patients with invasively confirmed ANOCA, a structured multidomain lifestyle intervention provided clinically meaningful improvements in patient-reported health status on top of endotype-guided medical therapy.

Study context

Population
Patients with angina and invasive evidence of coronary microvascular dysfunction and/or coronary vasomotor disorder (ANOCA)
Participants
123 patients
Comparison
Endotype-guided therapy plus multidomain lifestyle intervention vs endotype-guided therapy alone
  • Interventionn = 62
  • Controln = 61reference
Primary endpoint
Change in Seattle Angina Questionnaire summary score
Follow-up
12 months
Methodological detailsprospective, multicentre, blinded endpoint assessment
  • Prospective
  • Multicentre
  • Blinded endpoint assessment

Primary result

As reported in the abstract

Seattle Angina Questionnaire summary score (adjusted mean improvement)

Between-group difference

13.12 points

95% CI 9.68–16.56

P < 0.001

Interventionvs Control
between-group difference 13.12 points (95% CI 9.68–16.56); P < 0.001

Further findings

OutcomeInterventionAdjusted risk ratio (95% CI)P value
Clinically meaningful improvement in SAQ summary score (≥10-point increase) · 12 months77%1.98 (1.20–3.26)P < 0.001

EuroQol 5-Dimension 5-Level index and Beck Depression Inventory scores

Significant improvements with intervention

Parts of this Brief are withheld: the automatic checks could not confirm them against the abstract.

Original publication

A Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention for Invasively Confirmed ANOCA: The SAMCRO Randomized Trial. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. Published 27 July 2026. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2026.05.021

Composed by AI from the published abstract and checked against it. How Briefs are made →

Get them every week

New studies on this topic in My Week and in your Monday e-mail.

We e-mail you a sign-in link and a code. No password, no spam.