Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How do doctors even convince patients to sign up for procedures such as heart stents that are all risk without benefit?

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Starting to get angry yet? What do physicians have to say for themselves? What do stent companies have to say? That’s the subject of my next video: Angioplasty Heart Stent Risks vs. Benefits (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/angioplasty-heart-stent-risks-vs-benefits).

If you missed the first few in this seven-part series, see Do Angioplasty Heart Stent Procedures Work? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-angioplasty-heart-stent-procedures-work) and Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don’t Work Better (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-angioplasty-heart-stents-dont-work-better).

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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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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