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Article: Drug-Eluting Stents Beat Bare Metal Stents In Diabetics
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 10, 2008
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The American Heart Association issued the following news release:
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 from The Drug-eluting and Bare Metal Stenting in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Results from the Mass-DAC Registry, were presented as a late-breaking clinical trial. The study is simultaneously published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
"We actually saw a significant benefit from using drug-eluting stents in this patient population," ...