{"id":17,"date":"2007-04-25T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T14:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/25\/angioplasties-increase-in-number-and-rate\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T14:05:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T14:05:49","slug":"angioplasties-increase-in-number-and-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2007\/04\/25\/17\/","title":{"rendered":"Angioplasties Increase in Number and Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angioplasty\">Wikipedia<\/a>, angioplasty was first described in 1964 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=pubmed&amp;dopt=Abstract&amp;list_uids=11330737\">Dr. Charles Dotter<\/a>\u00a0and successfully used in a clinical setting in 1977 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptca.org\/archive\/bios\/gruentzig.html\">Dr. Andreas Gruentzig<\/a>. It was widely seen as a much less invasive and traumatic alternative to bypass surgery.<\/p>\n<p>We first regularized collection of data on angioplasties with our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/ad\/ad278.pdf\">1994 Hospital Discharge Survey<\/a>\u00a0, published as Advance Data #278, October 3, 1996. That report gives the number of angioplasties performed in the US short-stay hospitals as 428,000. 2004 Hospital Discharge Survey data, published as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/ad\/ad371.pdf\">Advance Data #371<\/a>\u00a0on May 4, 2006, reflects the increasing popularity of the procedure. In 2004, 664,000 procedures were performed.<\/p>\n<p>Over time the number of angioplasties have increased.<\/p>\n<p>1999\u00a0 601,000<\/p>\n<p>2000\u00a0 561,000<\/p>\n<p>2001\u00a0 572,000<\/p>\n<p>2002\u00a0 657,000<\/p>\n<p>2003\u00a0 664,000<\/p>\n<p>2004\u00a0 664,000<\/p>\n<p>A study in <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/cgi\/reprint\/26\/1\/169\">Health Affairs <\/a>gives more detail on the use of angioplasty.<\/p>\n<p>xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia, angioplasty was first described in 1964 by Dr. Charles Dotter\u00a0and successfully used in a clinical setting in 1977 by Dr. Andreas Gruentzig. It was widely seen as a much less invasive and traumatic alternative to bypass surgery. We first regularized collection of data on angioplasties with our\u00a01994 Hospital Discharge Survey\u00a0, published as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62220,62349,63685],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}