Doctors Giving Too Many Angioplasties

Doctors are performing too many angioplasty procedures on patients who haven’t had heart attacks, according to a new study. Around 600,000 angioplasties are performed each year, of which roughly 70% are performed on heart attack victims. Those are fine, the study concludes, but of the rest, 38% were deemed…

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Doctors Giving Too Many Angioplasties

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