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" Research suggests that opening up a heart-attack-causing blockage with an angioplasty balloon and a stent yields better results than clot-busting drugs. That finding remains unchallenged, even as some recent studies have raised concerns about overuse of stents in less-serious cases. But only 25% of the 5,000 hospitals in the U.S. are equipped with cardiac-catheterization laboratories, or cath labs, the operating-room-like facilities where angioplasty procedures are performed. That leaves about half of major heart-attack victims in the U.S. without timely access to the best treatment."
" Once the tallest people on earth, Americans are now among the shortest and fattest in the industrialized world. What do these numbers reveal about the nation's health-care system?"
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