Stents can be overused in less severe situations, such as for individuals with minor arterial narrowing and mild angina. — Whalespan
Stents can be overused in less severe situations, such as for individuals with minor arterial narrowing and mild angina.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“but it's also something like so many medical technologies that can be used more broadly it works really well in a critical situation maybe it works well for somebody who just has a little bit of narrowing of the arteries and maybe just a touch of angina that's that kind of reproducible chest pain that comes on when you shovel your driveway in the winter or go for a long walk so people would extrapolate from the critical situation to less severe situations in medicine and of course there's a lot more less severe situations and there are severe situations so it becomes a big driver of market share”