From what I've read over the years, it's pretty clear that stents are a con game. And from what I know personally about Abbott, I'm not at all surprised that they'd bribe researchers to yield the results that they wanted.
In a 2018 article in the New York Times, Marcia Angell wrote:
> Second, there’s good evidence that drug company involvement biases research in ways that are not always obvious, often by suppressing negative results.
And as I recall, her 2005 book The Truth About the Drug Companies discussed research which showed that the geographic distribution of stent usage correlated with the geographic distribution of capacity to do stents. With evidence, as I recall, that facilities basically bribed local cardiologists for referrals.
In a 2018 article in the New York Times, Marcia Angell wrote:
> Second, there’s good evidence that drug company involvement biases research in ways that are not always obvious, often by suppressing negative results.
And as I recall, her 2005 book The Truth About the Drug Companies discussed research which showed that the geographic distribution of stent usage correlated with the geographic distribution of capacity to do stents. With evidence, as I recall, that facilities basically bribed local cardiologists for referrals.