News:WSJ Writer Calls for Trial Comparing Statins, Surgery & Stent

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(WikiDoc) - More needs to be known before doctors choose surgery or stenting over statins to treat potential stroke victims, according to a piece in the Wall Street Journal. The author points to a major study about to finish that will compare the efficacy of surgery and stenting , but doesn't go so far as to compare either with a statin-based treatment. National Institutes of Health deputy director Walter J. Koroshetz says such an extensive, and expensive, three-part study would require "a lot of enthusiasm on the part of the medical community."