Table 3.
Variable | Standard | Off-Label | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bare-Metal Stent (N = 1748) | Drug-Eluting Stent (N = 1381) | P Value | Bare-Metal Stent (N = 2110) | Drug-Eluting Stent (N = 1312) | P Value | |
% | % | |||||
Safety | ||||||
Death | 2.7 | 2.8 | 0.88 | 6.4 | 3.7 | <0.001 |
Myocardial infarction | 4.1 | 3.3 | 0.24 | 5.9 | 4.4 | 0.06 |
Death or myocardial infarction | 6.4 | 5.8 | 0.42 | 11.6 | 7.5 | <0.001 |
Efficacy | ||||||
Repeat percutaneous coronary intervention | 10.5 | 6.5 | <0.001 | 13.6 | 11.4 | 0.07 |
Coronary-artery bypass grafting | 4.3 | 1.4 | <0.001 | 5.1 | 1.5 | <0.001 |
Repeat revascularization | 13.4 | 7.7 | <0.001 | 17.5 | 12.7 | <0.001 |
Event rates were calculated with the use of Kaplan–Meier methods.