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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2008 Jan 24;358(4):342–352. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0706258

Table 3.

Cumulative 1-Year Event Rates.*

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.