Category: stents

Why Are Stents Still Used If They Don’t Work?

September 27, 2022
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Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get paid personally. In 2007, we learned from the COURAGE trial that angioplasty and stents don’t reduce the risk of death or heart attack, but patients didn’t seem to get the memo. Only…

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Stents Show No Benefit in Treating Heart Failure

September 11, 2022
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Every year, 60,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with heart failure, and many are treated with stents. It’s in a large new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that my colleagues and I discovered that these procedures are unnecessary. Heart failure is where the heart muscle becomes weakened, leading to symptoms…

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