{"id":7121,"date":"2025-05-22T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=7121"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:11:29","slug":"distinction-description-of-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/distinction-description-of-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinction &#038; description of terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distinction &amp; description of terms:<\/p>\n<p>1-Cardiac Syndrome X is now understood as Microvascular Angina, a subtype of INOCA.<br \/>\n2-INOCA (Ischemia with No Obstructive Coronary Artery disease) is the modern, broader preferred term because it reflects true ischemia with clear pathophysiology, not just normal angiograms.<br \/>\n3-So cardiac Syndrome X (older term) described patients\u2014often women\u2014with: chest pain, normal coronary arteries, and positive stress tests. It was once thought to be non-cardiac but later linked to microvascular dysfunction.<br \/>\n4-INOCA is a broader, structured term used in current guidelines (AHA, ESC) and includes:<br \/>\n1-Microvascular angina (replaces Syndrome X)<br \/>\n2-Vasospastic (variant) angina without blockage<br \/>\n3-Other non-obstructive causes of ischemia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinction &amp; description of terms: 1-Cardiac Syndrome X is now understood as Microvascular Angina, a subtype of INOCA. 2-INOCA (Ischemia with No Obstructive Coronary Artery disease) is the modern, broader preferred term because it reflects true ischemia with clear pathophysiology, not just normal angiograms. 3-So cardiac Syndrome X (older term) described patients\u2014often women\u2014with: chest pain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}