SCIENCE BRIEFING
From Times Staff And Wire Reports
Heart stents coated with drugs appear to be just as safe as uncoated ones and keep blood flowing to the heart muscle longer, dispelling earlier concerns about their safety.
A study by the same researchers in 2006 found that people who got the drug-eluting stents were 18% more likely to die within three years. Long-term results, published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, conclude that the risk of death or heart attack is no greater among those who got drug-eluting stents or bare-metal stents.
