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Criteria for inclusion in our cohort were pragmatic and reflected primary care decision-making. Detailed diagnostic data were not available for many patients.1 As Hemingway points out, there is a paucity of prognostic research relating to angina in which researchers have been able to include in-depth aetiological or diagnostic data or even incident cases from the general population.2
Whether aberrant myocardial reinnervation accounts for any cases of angina pectoris or acute myocardial infarction may be a question that deserves further research. Citing an 1812 source, Quinn suggests that 19th century anatomists were familiar with physiological entities lost to modern medical dissection as a result of cadaver preservation methods.3 Meanwhile Hemingway illustrates the longstanding paucity of evidence that could illuminate our understanding of angina by suggesting that the authors of the very first paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine and surgery in 1812 might recognise very well the questions
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