Why Are Stents Still Used If They Don’t Work?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2021-04-05

Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get paid personally.

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You know that when dear Essy starts getting cynical, some bad stuff is going down. That’s why we need to join the civilized world and remove the profit motive from medicine.

This is the sixth in a seven-video series on stents. The last one coming up is Heart Stents and Upcoding: How Cardiologists Game the System (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-stents-and-upcoding-how-cardiologists-game-the-system).

If you missed any of the earlier videos in the series, check out: 
• Do Angioplasty Heart Stent Procedures Work? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-angioplasty-heart-stent-procedures-work)
• Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don’t Work Better (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-angioplasty-heart-stents-dont-work-better)
• The Risks of Heart Stents (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-risks-of-heart-stents)
• Angioplasty Heart Stent Risks vs. Benefits (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/angioplasty-heart-stent-risks-vs-benefits)
• Do Heart Stent Procedures Work for Angina Chest Pain? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-heart-stent-procedures-work-for-angina-chest-pain)

All of these videos are available on a digital download of a webinar I did last year, which also includes a series on statins. You can find it here (https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/how-effective-are-statins-and-stents-digital).

UPDATE: A new meta-analysis was just published last month and alas, there is still zero survival benefit to stent placement for stable coronary artery disease, but at least there were fewer heart attacks. Since this still didn’t translate into actually living any longer, the foundation of treatment remains medical and lifestyle management. Hat tip to Dr. Bitterman!  (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33742721/)

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