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Article: Drug-Eluting Stents Beat Bare Metal Stents in Diabetics

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November 11, 2008
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Study highlights:

-- Drug-eluting stents showed improved outcomes as compared with bare metal stents in diabetics.

-- No excess adverse events were found with drug-eluting stents in diabetic patients.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Drug-eluting stents reduced the risk of revascularization, heart attack and death in diabetics as compared with bare-metal stents in the largest observational comparison, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2008. The results fromThe Drug- eluting and Bare Metal Stenting in Patients with ...

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