The primary goal of revascularization or treating stable angina is symptom management, not necessarily conferring an all-cause mortality benefit.

“And I think the important thing to remember is to define the benefit you're interested in. So we need to talk about the two things that matter. And when a patient comes to see me in the office or you in the office, we talk, we often end up talking about two things. One is how do I feel? So presence or absence of symptoms. And the second is, is this going to impact how long i live mortality and those are the two variables we think about every day in cardiology and as you mentioned there was evidence that this one procedure or a subset of these procedures could confer a mortality benefit but most of the time when we're talking about revascularizing or treating stable angina we're talking about treating symptoms”