Angioplasty may be overused on heart patients
14th Nov 2006, 17:01 GMT
In a surprise finding, heart attack survivors with mild or no symptoms who wait three days or more to seek medical help will not benefit from widely used procedures to open clogged arteries, U.S. researchers said.
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