Medical Notes: Week of December 1, 2019
People with significantly clogged heart arteries often undergo bypass surgery or stenting procedures, but a large new study shows that drug therapy alone is often just as effective. The study presented to meetings of the American Heart Association finds that artery blockages discovered during stress tests can be managed by medication and results in no more heart attacks or deaths than in patients who received either stents or bypass surgery.
In Good Health · Greg Johnson, Elizabeth Westfield, Maayan Voss de Bettancourt | AURN
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People with significantly clogged heart arteries often undergo bypass surgery or stenting procedures, but a large new study shows that drug therapy alone is often just as effective. The study presented to meetings of the American Heart Association finds that artery blockages discovered during stress tests can be managed by medication and results in no more heart attacks or deaths than in patients who received either stents or bypass surgery.
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