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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 18, Pages 1629-1641Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.03.005
Keywords
comparative effectiveness; coronary revascularization; drug-eluting stent
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- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
- Cardiovascular Consortium [24-EHC-1]
- AstraZeneca
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Eli Lilly and Co.
- Medtronic
- Medtronic Vascular
- Allergan
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Merck Co.
- Johnson & Johnson (Ortho Biotech)
- Novartis
- OSI Eyetech
- Sanofi-Aventis
- BMS/Sanofi and Merck/Schering
- [HHSAA290-2005-0032TO4-WA1]
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Objectives The aim of this study was to compare outcomes in older individuals receiving drug-eluting stents (DES) and bare-metal stents (BMS). Background Comparative effectiveness of DES relative to BMS remains unclear. Methods Outcomes were evaluated in 262,700 patients from 650 National Cardiovascular Data Registry sites during 2004 to 2006 with procedural registry data linked to Medicare claims for follow-up. Outcomes including death, myocardial infarction (MI), revascularization, major bleeding, stroke, death or MI, death or MI or revascularization, and death or MI or stroke were compared with estimated cumulative incidence rates with inverse probability weighted estimators and Cox proportional hazards ratios. Results The DES were implanted in 217,675 patients and BMS were implanted in 45,025. At 30 months, DES patients had lower unadjusted rates of death (12.9% vs. 17.9%), MI (7.3 of 100 patients vs. 10.0 of 100 patients), and revascularization (23.0 of 100 patients vs. 24.5 of 100 patients) with no difference in stroke or bleeding. After adjustment, DES patients had lower rates of death (13.5% vs. 16.5%, hazard ratio [HR]: 0.75, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.72 to 0.79, p < 0.001) and MI (7.5 of 100 patients vs. 8.9 of 100 patients, HR: 0.77, 95% CI: 0.72 to 0.81, p < 0.001), with minimal difference in revascularization ( 23.5 of 100 patients vs. 23.4 of 100 patients; HR: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.87 to 0.96), stroke (3.1 of 100 patients vs. 2.7 of 100 patients, HR: 0.97, 95% CI: 0.88 to 1.07), or bleeding (3.4 of 100 patients vs. 3.6 of 100 patients, HR: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.84 to 1.00). The DES survival benefit was observed in all subgroups analyzed and persisted throughout 30 months of follow-up. Conclusions In this largest ever real-world study, patients receiving DES had significantly better clinical outcomes than their BMS counterparts, without an associated increase in bleeding or stroke, throughout 30 months of follow-up and across all pre-specified subgroups. (J Am Coll Cardiol 2009; 53: 1629-41) (C) 2009 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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