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Previous Volume 338:198-199 January 15, 1998 Number 3 Next

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To the Editor: Savage et al. (Sept. 11 issue)¹ present convincing data favoring stent placement over balloon angioplasty for obstructive coronary bypass grafts, but several caveats about important variables should be kept in mind. First, there were considerably more patients with diabetes in the angioplasty group than in the stent group (36 percent, vs. 23 percent), and angioplasty is less successful in the long term in patients with diabetes than in those without diabetes.²

Second, we do not have information about the control of diabetes, an important variable related to survival in patients with diabetes and complications of coronary artery . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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