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YouTubeIn October 2020, Dr Greger held a multi-hour webinar titled How Effective are Statins and Stents?
Dr Greger's video series below was an eye opener for me! In particular, the video titled "(2021) Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don't Work Better" has an important insight that helped me understand the root cause of what's going on.
(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures performed outside of an emergency setting. They don't prevent heart attacks, enable you to live longer, or even help with symptoms any more than placebo (fake) surgery."
(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree. There is no such thing as '1-vessel disease', '2-vessel disease', or 'left main disease.' Atherosclerotic plaque is continuous throughout the coronary arteries of heart attack victims."
(7 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "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?"
(5 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they are promoting expensive, risky procedures with no benefit?"
(7 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain — only risk to millions of patients."
(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get paid personally."
(8 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling a patient they have a much more serious, unstable disease than they really have, fraud that results in unnecessary procedures, unnecessary cost, and unnecessary patient harm."
In the article What would you say to someone considering a stent or other surgical procedure or drug therapy, to treat their heart disease? Dr Esselstyn says:
A good video with a simple explanation on how hypertension medicines may affect heart health negatively, leading to atrial fibrillation, for example. The latter half of the video explains how plaques, including juvenile plaques, may cause heart attacks, and the efficacy of stents.
The ISCHEMIA Study cost 100 million US dollars. Over 5,000 patients were studied at 320 sites worldwide over a 12-year time period. An article at ForksOverKnives covered this study: New Study: For Stable Heart Disease, Lifestyle Changes and Meds Just as Effective as Bypass, Stents
In this video, Dr Judith Hochman summarizes the findings of the ISCHEMIA Study. She is the principal investigator this study. YouTube video description has this snippet:
This video is from AHA 2019, the conference where ICHEMIA Study was presented.
An exposition of ISCHEMIA Study by Gregg W Stone (ISCHEMIA Trials Steering Committee).
Dr. Sripal Bangalore explains the primary results of clinical outcomes of the ISCHEMIA-CKD trial.
William C Roberts (1932-) is a renowned cardiologist & pathologist: see William C Roberts (Wikipedia). He has over 1,300 scientific publications, and he's been the Editor in Chief of American Journal of Cardiology for over 25 years. I came to know of William C Roberts through Dr Greger's videos: Eliminating the #1 Cause of Death (4 mins, 2010) and How Low Should You Go for Ideal Cholesterol Levels? (6 mins, 2021), in which he mentions that William C Roberts' CV is over 100 pages long!
A key point in Dr Greger's 7-part video series is that heart disease is a 'systemic disease' affecting the entire length of our arteries. It is not a 'localized disease' affecting only those sections of our arteries where stents may be placed. What makes the disease systemic? The second video in Dr Greger's 7-part video series explains the "5mm studies" by Dr William C Roberts. These studies are explained in detail by Dr Roberts himself in lectures like these (available at his YouTube channel):
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