Tag: <span>angioplasty</span>

Home / angioplasty
Post

Smokers needed angioplasty and stenting a decade before non-smokers

MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Smokers needed their blocked arteries fixed nearly a decade earlier than non-smokers, and patients with obesity underwent these procedures four years earlier than non-obese patients, according to a new statewide study. The research included patients without a history of heart attack who were treated at hospitals across Michigan participating in BMC2, the...