On 25th of September 2013, the Advertlets team was invited to University Malaya for a survey called UMMC Love Your Heart Survey 2013. In the survey, 414 patients who suffered from CHD and have undergone Percutaneous Cononary intervention and stenting were posed questions about their familiarity with CHD, cononary angioplasty and cononary stents in the treatment of the disease. The survey sought to shed light on cardiac risk factors and treatment options as well as patients’ understanding of these issues. The survey revealed that about 73 percent of respondents had not even performed regular heart health tests before they had been diagonised with Coronary Heart Disease. Futhermore, 83 percent of respondents had not pro-actively sought out information about coronary stents before their coronary angioplasty.
Next generation stent technologies such as the Dual Therapy Stent(DTS) , which addresses the challenges of delayed healing of the coronary artery associated with monotherapy DES, and Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold were completly unfamiliar, with only two and four respondents respectively having heard of it. The DTS is an exciting and important one as it combines the best of two existing technologies. It reduces restenosis using DES and at the same time with Endothelial Progenitor Cell technology, allows for better vessel healing and a combination of efficacy and safety.the result is overall improved performance, explained Prof Dr Wan Azman bin Wan Ahmad, Head of Cardiology, UMMC.
On the other hand, 80 percent of respodents understood the importance of taking the two anti-platelet drugs, Aspirin and Plavix, as prescribed by their doctors, with only 83 respondents saying otherwise.
Additionally, the survey also revealed that:
66% of respondents were aware that they could suffer from stent thrombosis(heart attact) if they failed to take their two anti-platlet drugs(i.e. Aspirin and Plavix).
73% of respondents surveyed knew that stent thrombosis could be fatal.
78% of respondents were interested to find out more information about treatment methods of Coronary disease.
66% of respondents were aware that they could suffer from stent thrombosis(heart attact) if they failed to take their two anti-platlet drugs(i.e. Aspirin and Plavix).
73% of respondents surveyed knew that stent thrombosis could be fatal.
78% of respondents were interested to find out more information about treatment methods of Coronary disease.
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