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Background Drug-eluting stents (DESs) have become the gold standard of coronary angioplasty since their inception in 2002. Despite the DP-DES group exhibiting significantly higher rates of riskfactors, such as arterial hypertension (63.1% vs 1.63±0.84, p=0.040), more acute coronary syndrome (ACS) (55.1%
American College of Cardiology Journal) Are you thinking of stopping your antiplatelet medication too soon after angioplasty? The American Heart Association draws attention to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which affects about one in four adults and is a riskfactor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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