According to a press release issued to reporters, 13.2% of the patients receiving Tredaptive had a heart attack, heart-related death, stroke, or need for a stent procedure or bypass surgery.

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Each is intended to deal with the often unsightly and sometimes unhealthy aftereffects of gastric bypass surgery, a procedure in which part of the stomach is tied off to reduce the amount that patients eat.

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The new procedure was coronary angioplasty, a far less invasive and expensive procedure than coronary bypass surgery that is now performed over a million times each year in the U.S. alone, while saving countless lives.

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But sometimes scar tissue formed inside the stent, causing artery to close up again-leading to a repeat procedure or to heart bypass surgery.

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And women who had migraines with auras less than once a month (75 percent of the group) were more than twice as likely as migraine-free women to have a heart attack, and almost twice as likely to have had a heart procedure, such as bypass surgery.

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Others will question why you decided to do the Lap-Band procedure rather than the permanent Roux-en-Y gastic bypass.

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Subsequent pictures of Clinton's arteries revealed that one of the bypass grafts from his 2004 surgery was "completely blocked, " prompting the stent procedure, which took about an hour, Schwartz said.

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