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Study finds stents raise death risk for heart attack patients

Drug-coated stents were linked to a higher death rate when given to people with a certain type of heart attack in a study, a finding that may limit doctors’ use of the tiny mesh tubes to prop open arteries. The heart attack patients died at more than four times the rate when they received a drug-coated ...

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