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Article: Study says drug-coated stents do not reduce risks any more than uncoated ones.
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- August 14, 2004
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By Jim McCartney, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 14--Drug-coated stents don't cut the risk of death or heart attack any more than do uncoated stents, researchers from McGill University in Montreal concluded in a new study.
Still, the drug-coated devices outperformed the uncoated ones in reducing the risk that arteries will close up again and in reducing the occurrence of "major adverse cardiac events," such as the need to perform bypass surgery, according to the study published in Aug. 14 issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal.
The McGill study's conclusions, reached after analyzing 11 ...