Heart Stents and Their Risks 

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 that are all risk without benefit? Millions of people have gotten stents for stable coronary artery disease (CAD), yet we now know that angioplasty and stent placement don’t actually prevent heart attacks, offer long-term angina pain relief, or improve survival for such patients. Why? Because the most dangerous plaques—the ones “most vulnerable to rupture or erosion—leading to a subsequent cardiac event” (a heart attack), are not the ones doctors put s