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Women benefit from drug-eluting stents as much as men
May 12th, 2005
A new study from the Columbia University Medical Center confirms that women respond as well as men to treatment with drug-eluting stents. Despite the fact that symptomatic coronary disease afflicts men and women equally, only 33% of the 1.2 million interventional procedures conducted in the U.S. each year are done on women. The difference is at least partially the result of a belief by doctors that women do not respond as well to the treatments, researchers say, but the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) study, published in the April 18, 2005, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, shows that drug-eluting stents are just as effective and safe in...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-05-12)
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