Heart Disease

Study data from Kinki University update understanding of heart disease

Published in Elder Law Weekly, August 19th, 2009

"The angiographic characteristics and prognosis in elderly women in relation to the therapeutic impact of sirolimus-eluting, stents (SES) need to be clarified. Quantitative coronary angiography analysis was performed in 1,374 patients with coronary artery disease: 670 patients were treated with a bare metal stent (BMS) and the remaining 704 were treated with SES," researchers in Japan report.

"were divided into 4 groups according to gender and age (<75 years M/F, >= 75 years M/F), and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) were compared among them. Women >= 75 years old tended to have 3-vessel disease with small vessel size and the incidence of MACE in this...

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