{"id":8509,"date":"2017-11-05T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:33:27","slug":"international-cardiology-community-shocked-by-report-on-stents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8509","title":{"rendered":"International Cardiology Community Shocked by Report on Stents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The international cardiology community was stunned on Thursday with the release of a report finding that patients who had stents put in to treat nonemergency chest pain showed about the same improvements as patients who got a \u201csham\u201d placebo procedure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/landmark-study-casts-doubt-on-effectiveness-of-stents\/454743643\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=58058391&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--W_k-xisCUZU2aJ9bmMG8HdE6inWNcxbKBkxROs24jR5H_IYtP9IU4i99ZOfee8yl5n6UK3JX95uSsT9cm5LjMZwE7kw&amp;_hsmi=58058391\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8434\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international cardiology community was stunned on Thursday with the release of a report finding that patients who had stents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8510,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions\/8510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}