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Drug Therapy for Artery Disease Underused, Study Says

Date:5/10/2011

use catheterization procedures in patients on optimal medical therapy for stable coronary artery disease."

Slater said that to really see the effects of COURAGE, the authors of the new study needed to include people who received optimal medical therapy and never needed to be referred for a stenting procedure.

"It would've been better if they also had people who didn't go on to have angioplasty," he said.

Borden said there are likely patients who are receiving the right drugs and are never referred for stenting, but it was important to look at the group referred for stenting as well. Ideally, all of the people referred for stenting should have already been placed on optimal medical therapy to see if their symptoms improved, he said.

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Learn more about angina from the American Heart Association.

SOURCES: William Borden, M.D., cardiologist, Perelman Heart Institute, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City; James Slater, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratory, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City; May 11, 2011, Journal of the American Medical Association

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