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Placebo-controlled trials in intervention: Insights from the ORBITA trial

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Dr Rasha Al-Lamee, Interventional Cardiology Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare Trust, outlines the findings of the ORBITA trial which looked at the impact of using heart stents to treat patients with stable angina. Dr Al-Lamee’s explains that while patients with stable chest pain, or angina, who received stent devices had a significant improvement in the blood supply to their heart, they did not have a significant improvement on their symptoms or quality of life compared to a placebo procedure. Dr Al Lamee is using these findinsg to develop a greater understanding of stable angina and to see whether there are subgroups of patients whose angina improves more after stenting.