Journal article
The Evolving Pattern of Symptomatic Coronary Artery Disease in the United States and Canada: Baseline Characteristics of the Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive DruG Evaluation (COURAGE) Trial
Abstract
Major improvements in medical therapy and percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery disease (CAD) have emerged during the previous 2 decades, but no randomized trial in patients with stable CAD has been powered to compare these 2 strategies for the hard clinical end points of death or myocardial infarction (MI), and previous studies have not evaluated the effect of coronary stents and intensive medical therapy on cardiac events …
Authors
Boden WE; O’Rourke RA; Teo KK; Hartigan PM; Maron DJ; Kostuk W; Knudtson M; Dada M; Casperson P; Harris CL
Journal
The American Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 99, No. 2, pp. 208–212
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 2007
DOI
10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.07.082
ISSN
0002-9149