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By Dr. Rober J. Rowen,
Here is “medical science”. It is not science at all.
Millions of stents and bypass procedures worldwide and done with nothing backing them.
It cost 100M of your money to show this.
But what about vaccines? We have a world of dogma here, and vaccines are not imposed on sporadic children, but ALL of them.
If the government can spend 100M for heart studies that affect people late in life, why can’t it spend a fraction of that for a similar all cause morbidly and mortality study on children who have a full lifetime ahead?
And, why did the government not include some “alternative” therapies for comparison, like chelation and oxidation therapy?
I just got an awesome report from a patient of ours this week. His ejection fraction (percentage of blood pumped out in a single stroke), has improved from a mediocre 30% to 60% with our work.
His cardiologist told him, “I don’t know what it is you are doing, but whatever it is, keep it up!”
Big study casts doubt on need for many heart procedures
by Marilynn Marchione – AP
Medical Xpress
Excerpts:
People with severe but stable heart disease from clogged arteries may have less chest pain if they get a procedure to improve blood flow rather than just giving medicines a chance to help, but it won’t cut their risk of having a heart attack or dying over the following few years, a big federally funded study found.
The results challenge medical dogma and call into question some of the most common practices in heart care. They are the strongest evidence yet that tens of thousands of costly stent procedures and bypass operations each year are unnecessary or premature for people with stable disease.
For non-emergency cases, the study shows “there’s no need to rush” into invasive tests and procedures, said New York University’s Dr. Judith Hochman.
There might even be harm: To doctors’ surprise, study participants who had a procedure were more likely to suffer a heart problem or die over the next year than those treated with medicines alone.
“This study clearly goes against what has been the common wisdom for the last 30, 40 years” and may lead to less testing and invasive treatment for such patients in the future, said Dr. Glenn Levine, a Baylor College of Medicine cardiologist with no role in the research. Some doctors still may quibble with the study, but it was very well done “and I think the results are extremely believable,” he said.
Twelve years ago, a big study found that angioplasty was no better than medicines for preventing heart attacks and deaths in non-emergency heart patients, but many doctors balked at the results and quarreled with the methods.
So the federal government spent $100 million for the new study, which is twice as large, spanned 37 countries and included people with more severe disease—a group most likely to benefit from stents or a bypass.
All 5,179 participants had stress tests, usually done on a treadmill, that suggested blood flow was crimped. All were given lifestyle advice and medicines that improve heart health. Half also were given CT scans to rule out dangerous blockages, then continued on their medicines.
The others were treated as many people with abnormal stress tests are now: They were taken to cardiac catheterization labs for angiograms. The procedure involves placing a tube into a major artery and using special dyes to image the heart’s blood vessels. Blockages were treated right away, with angioplasty in three-fourths of cases and a bypass in the rest.
Doctors then tracked how many in each group suffered a heart attack, heart-related death, cardiac arrest or hospitalization for worsening chest pain or heart failure.
After one year, 7% in the invasively treated group had one of those events versus 5% of those on medicines alone. At four years, the trend reversed—13% of the procedures group and 15% of the medicines group had suffered a problem. Averaged across the entire study period, the rates were similar regardless of treatment.
If stents and bypasses did not carry risks of their own, “I think the results would have shown an overall benefit” from them, said another study leader, Dr. David Maron of Stanford University. “But that’s not what we found. We found an early harm and later benefit, and they canceled each other out.”
Why might medicines have proved just as effective at reducing risks?
Bypasses and stents fix only a small area. Medicines affect all the arteries, including other spots that might be starting to clog, experts said.
Drugs also have improved a lot in recent years.
Having a procedure did prove better at reducing chest pain, though. Of those who had pain daily or weekly when they entered the study, half in the stent-or-bypass group were free of it within a year versus 20% of those on medicines alone. A placebo effect may have swayed these results—people who know they had a procedure tend to credit it with any improvement they perceive in symptoms.
Dr. Alice Jacobs, a Boston University cardiologist who led a treatment-guidelines panel a few years ago, said any placebo effect fades with time, and people with a lot of chest pain that’s unrelieved by medicines still may want a procedure.
“It’s intuitive that if you take the blockage away you’re going to do better, you’re going to feel better,” but the decision is up to the patient and doctor, she said.
The bottom line: There’s no harm in trying medicines first, especially for people with no or little chest pain, doctors said.
When told they have a problem that can be fixed with a stent, “the grand majority of patients in my experience will opt to undergo that procedure” to get improvement right away, said Dr. Jay Giri, a cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania with no role in the study.
Maryann Byrnes-Alvarado is not among them. The 66-year-old New York City woman said she joined the study six years ago after having trouble walking, which “scared me to death,” but so did the idea of a heart procedure.
She was relieved when she was assigned to the medication treatment group. Her doctor altered her blood pressure medicine, added a cholesterol drug and aspirin, and adjusted her diet. Now her risk factor numbers are better and she can walk again without difficulty.
“I believe I got the best care that I could get” and avoided an operation, she said.
Source: https://medicalxpress.com
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I am retired now from our Healthcare Cartel (thank goodness), but I saw the frequency of CABG and other cardiac interventions which left me wondering what the real story was behind them. One particular incident almost unhinged me. A young man barely turning 30 was told by his cardiologist he needed CABG. His shock was only made more palpable by his friends who were by the bedside and started to shed tears. I was not a friend or relative, but I shed tears in empathy. The friends went on to say he exercised every day and barely eat meat, etc. Apparently, all that healthy living counted for nothing. Then we admitted a lady who was having cardiac catheterization. I asked her why she was having it done. She said she was just having a thorough checkup. I ascertained she had no cardiac symptoms that would warrant such a procedure which is not without risks. She died from an emboli, most likely a plaque dislodged by the catheter, although I can think of other things. Her sister called from NY “just to check on her”, and I had the horror of listening to her scream and drop the phone when she learned of her death. She was just having a checkup. Finally, came that story of a priest who taught “ethics” and whose friend just happened to work for the FBI. He had gone to this doctor who told him that he needed CABG. He was shocked too just like the other young man, but instead of simply acqueiscing to the doctor’s conclusion, he went and got a second and a third opinion. He may have gotten a fourth one (It has been about thirty years so my memory is not as sharp). All the others told him he did not need CABG. The last one specially told him it was clear as night and day he did not need it. This smart man went to his friend at the FBI and the next thing you know a raid of that doctor’s clinic and other medical facilities he was affiliated with happened. To make this long story short, people were arrested for doing unnecessary medical procedures risking peoples’ lives and killing many of them as well. Cinefilms were confiscated that proved beyond doubt these people who swore to do no harm, was doing the exact opposite. The victims were in the hundreds. For all I know, there were many more they missed. I read how the surgeons involved in the scam owned mansions. One story said the FBI had to drive almost ten minutes from this huge gate to get to this surgeon’s mansion. I thought to myself, “He must own an entire little town” like Kim Basinger. Hundreds of lawsuits were filed. Millions of dollars in fines to be paid, the medical corporation these heartless individuals were affiliated to, had to sell several hospitals to come up with the money. They paid all the government fines, they paid all the family and patients that were victimized, and then came the name change of the corporation, and then they were back to business (again). Part of the deal with the government was for all the employees of the corporation to be required to attend “ethics” class. I can just tell you outright that the ones that should be taking the ethics class were not taking it. It was all a charade. Ever since that lady died of an emboli when she was just having a “thorough checkup” I had been asking incessantly, “Why are you having this procedure done when you don’t have any cardiac symptoms?”. I wanted to keep my job because I also had a mortgage to pay, but …. The worst part of all of these, very few people in the hospital seemed to be aware of what was going on. I read for hours every day anything I can get my hands on. I know I read almost obssessively, but to see people around me seemingly clueless to what just happened or maybe they were simply indifferent to it all, was disturbing at the very least. I have so much more to say, but this may not be the right place to say all of it, but suffice it to say that while there are good human beings working in our healthcare cartel, many are misinformed. There are those who also do not simply care. I saw it with my own eyes. Everyone needs to understand how the cartel functions. Consider that the control of it and all the practitioners in it stems from the Rockefeller AMA. Learn what the Flexner’s Report is. Take control of your health by educating yourself. Nature provides everything to keep us healthy, but the controllers are destroying those resources as they frantically try to phase in their NWO. Our complacency is what is killing all of us.