In people with stable coronary artery disease, opening up a blood vessel can reduce...
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While the decision is ultimately up to you — it’s your body — it’s best if the cardiologist gives you a definite recommendation and the reasoning behind it. You can’t make an informed decision without being informed. A stent might improve your shortness of breath, but there are risks of bleeding, infection and even heart damage from a stent placement. It’s not to be undertaken lightly.
Fortunately, we do have high-quality, long-term data, most of which confirms a benefit in reducing overall mortality risk among coffee drinkers. Benefits were seen for heart disease and stroke, as well as in multiple other causes, but not for cancer. Whether it is a specific antioxidant in coffee or the whole combination, or even whether these results will be confirmed in future trials, are not answerable at the present time.
After the event, medical therapy can drastically reduce the risk of another acute coronary syndrome. Risk stratification, with a stress test or angiogram, will sometimes be recommended in people who have had an NSTEMI.
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