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Study questions frequency of heart angiograms

A recent study raises questions about the frequency of doctors’ use of elective heart angiograms, which showed no disease in almost 40 percent of patients. BusinessWeek reports: “Doctors may be sending patients too quickly for elective angiograms to detect heart disease, exposing them to radiation and driving up U.S. health-care costs, a study suggests.

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