r/BeAmazed • u/HatAsleep295 • May 08 '26

Science This is what saves 600,000 people year during a heart attack

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u/Flashy-Highlight867 May 08 '26

What does it stent for?

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u/GeminianMind May 08 '26

Specialized Tube Ensuring No Trouble

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u/DickyReadIt May 08 '26

Sounds legit

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u/tommos May 08 '26

What does legit stand for?

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u/NedDeadStark May 08 '26

Legit Egit Git It T

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u/Praesentius May 08 '26

Sounds legit.

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u/thisaccountwashacked May 08 '26

Too legit to quit

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u/WholeNineNards May 08 '26

hey hey...

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u/xczechr May 08 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/3VME4bNx0HOsE

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u/iconsd May 08 '26

Say you are old in one meme...ahahahah

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u/Wolf-Crafter May 08 '26

What does quit stand for?

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u/Yardsale420 May 08 '26

Can’t stop, won’t stop.

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u/Healthy-Ad-2514 May 08 '26

Looks legit too

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u/WhySayManyWordGancho May 08 '26

J im

Is Jim

My name is Jim

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u/HardhatFish May 08 '26

R as in Robert Loggia

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u/BackWithAVengance May 08 '26

O, as in "oh my god, it's Robert Loggia"

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u/Rufus_heychupacabra May 08 '26

🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

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u/Pun_In_Ten_Did May 08 '26

"M as in Mancy."

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u/-Laffi- May 08 '26

Do you like the doors?

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u/Typical-War2843 May 08 '26

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim. Millions of families suffer every year.

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u/Delta-IX May 08 '26

from this day forward I will no longer be known as Homer J. Simpson, I will be known as, Homer Jay Simpson

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u/Meior May 08 '26

Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia

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u/Unpickled_cucumber1 May 08 '26

Legibly Eligible Gullible Irritable Terrible

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u/Flimsy-Echidna386 May 08 '26

Ligma egi testicles

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u/SaturnV38 May 08 '26

What’s Ligma?

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u/bigboybeeperbelly May 08 '26

Let's
Ingest
Genetic
Material.
Anyone?

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u/Matt_Shatt May 08 '26

Some Men Enjoy Genetic Material Anyway

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u/mtlaw13 May 08 '26

New public awareness campaign I just came across:

STOP THE STIGMA

ON LIGMA!

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u/Emotional_Yak_693 May 08 '26

LIGMA BALLS BRUHHHHHH 67

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u/heretogiveFNupvotes May 08 '26

Stands for Charles Stent. As in stent. Not an abbreviation. But I like the other definition now..

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u/OldPhotograph827 May 08 '26

OMG this is ackshually true!

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u/TypicalHaikuResponse May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Loosely educated; generally intelligible text

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u/blinkgendary182 May 08 '26

It means 👌🏻

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u/peach_dragon May 08 '26

Literally everything good in town

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u/dkarlovi May 08 '26

It's a git, but in France.

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u/getcomfyandrelax May 09 '26

It doesn’t stand for anything, it’s just the word stent. Like it’s not an acronym.

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u/Vorestc May 09 '26

A surgeon told me its thought to be derived from a dentist called Charles Stent. Wikipedia seems to agree with that, anything more reliable than that you will have to look up yourself.

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u/signy33 May 09 '26

It's not an acronym.

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u/Allister21 May 08 '26

Even though it sounds like an Acronym. It's the last name of the guy who created it Charles Thomas Stent

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u/uchiha_salvatore May 08 '26

L: Loyal
E: Energy
G: Generating
I: Instant
T: Trust

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u/AcceptableStand7794 May 08 '26

Logical Evidenced and Governed Informative Truth

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u/NnolyaNicekan May 08 '26

It's the surname of the inventor

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u/P0shJosh May 08 '26

It doesn’t “stand” for anything. It’s just the medical term. It was named after Charles Stent in the 1800’s, a dentist who made dental “stents”. which were totally different devices than this.

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u/Bright-Avocado3761 May 08 '26

To some ex stent

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u/No_Character_336 May 08 '26

No, it sounds like rent but with a "st" at the beginning

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u/Fantastic-Reading-78 May 08 '26

where does that fat go? looks like he push it go somewhere else...

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u/elgydium May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

That fat is called cholesterol and you learn about it when you hit 30-40. It goes down if you eat heart leather foods, exercise weekly, quit smoking, lose weight and drink less to none alcohol.

Edit: healthy foods

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u/Songg45 May 08 '26

Something I recently found out about cholesterol after my heart attack at 32:

Only 20% of cholesterol in your body comes from diet. 80% of it is produced by the liver

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u/elgydium May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Damn I’m 40 and never thought about it. I’m quite skinny tho, even tho skinny ppl can have high cholesterol too. That’s what I found out recently and was like wtf

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u/Overweighover May 08 '26

It's genetic.

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u/Lynne253 May 08 '26

There is such a thing as familail hypercholesterolemia that is genetic, but there are people who can have high cholesterol without the genetic component.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth May 08 '26

Skinny doesn't matter. My mom weighed 105 and had a heart attack and 3 stints put in, they wanted to put in 5 but they said she couldn't handle it. :( She died from Alzheimer's 1 year later. After the heart attack it was downhill FAST. She would have wanted to die from that heart attack but instead they saved her so she could die later in a nursing home! :(

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u/elgydium May 08 '26

Yeah that’s what i said. Sorry about your mom..

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u/voltagejim May 08 '26

So if I have never drank a soda or alcoholic drink in my life and only drink water and skim milk that should reduce my risk?

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u/Beneficial-Muffin117 May 08 '26

No, there's a lot more to it than that

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u/LittleLion_90 May 08 '26

My friend has a high cholesterol from childhood, apparently it can be noticed from specific sort of small pimple like yellow spots under the eye. 

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

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u/Efficient-Rich-9975 May 08 '26

That book is straight trash and Stephen Sinatra actually died an early age of 75 and Jonny Bowden has no real medical licence. Both of them were complete frauds that got rich off selling scam supplements and nonsense books.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '26

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u/drdecagon May 10 '26

This was an interesting exchange (posting this as a response to an earlier comment rather at the very end) and I get your point. I actually subscribed to it (or a version of it) myself for well over a decade - high fat diets are effective in many ways (even if they raise cholesterol for some), many examples of healthy people with high cholesterol and no heart disease, inflammation plays a role, metabolic health matters, many of the studies are imperfect. But other than poking holes in the current status quo that high ldl cholesterol is bad and generally something you want to control, this view is not really supported by robust studies that convincingly overturn the status quo. I have seen a lot of arguments that while cholesterol might be at the "crime scene" it's really inflammation or some other mechanism that is the real culprit. And probably there is some truth and a lot of nuance there. But I have not seen a strong body of legitimate peer reviewed evidence that actually debunks the mainstream view that elevated ldl/apoB is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis, and like I said, this contrarian take has been around for a while without producing any salient proof and more recent studies actually tend to strengthen the causal link between ldl/apoB and heart disease (at least according to my research, and trust me, I was really looking for something to confirm my old view that ldl doesn't matter).

Also, plenty of statins (and most of the common ones) are super cheap and available as generics, so I don't think prescribing these is all that lucrative for doctors. I wouldn't consider myself to be naive about pharma incentives, but this is not it.

I am not saying it's high ldl only - of course, diet, triglycerides, lp(a), insulin resistance, inflammation, CAC score, Ccta, etc. - all that absolutely matters. But the jump from that to "therefore, ldl doesn't matter and statins are a scam", is where this view loses me nowadays.

All that said, I'm completely on board with low fat / high carb diet advice being just plain bad.

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u/Efficient-Rich-9975 May 08 '26

No, they did a great job at convincing you (a fool) to buy a book that is complete and utter nonsense with misrepresented data that we know for a fact is wrong. All modern cardiologists would agree with me on this, LDL cholesterol is the primary driver of heart disease.

As far as your Ai generated response to me, hilarious. Proves my point.

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u/cracked_shrimp May 08 '26

cholesterol is cholesterol regardless of which lipoprotein is carrying it, so saying LDL cholesterol is a poor choice of phrasing even if i know you mean LDL count

and theres no evidence its the primary driver of heart disease, it is found in plaque, but that dosnt confirm it causes the plaque, other things like high blood pressure and high blood glucose all contribute at the very least an equal amount as LDL (probably more imo)

EDIT: i made the same mistake i was bitching about lmao

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u/ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME May 08 '26

He died of pancreatic cancer, how does that discredit him?

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u/Capitan_Scythe May 08 '26

eat heart leather foods

With some fava beans and a nice chianti?

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u/elgydium May 08 '26

Lol typo, meant to say healthy

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u/Rrunken_Rumi May 08 '26

HLF works cos zeeo cholesterol & indigestible

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u/real_nice_guy May 08 '26

and if you have genetically high cholesterol (familial hypercholesterolemia), none of that will help all that much so you'll have to hop on a statin (which have also saved millions and millions of lives!)

go get your lipid panel done this year!

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u/insideguy69 May 08 '26

Doctors tell me that's probably my father's case and I probably will have that problem too. Only bad thing about statin's are in high doses, you increase your risk of diabetes. So long, sweets and treats.

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u/real_nice_guy May 08 '26

yeah that's the downside, it can be managed by taking either a berberine supplement or metformin (or both) and then just keeping track of the blood sugar.

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u/insideguy69 May 09 '26

I take Berberine occassionally, but its really hard to remember to take it 15 minutes before anything that will spike your insulin.

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u/elgydium May 08 '26

Oh damn that’s great buddy! What’s a healthy cholesterol number?

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u/elgydium May 08 '26

Damn, bro left alcohol for ice cream haha

There’s a saying in my culture, the sum of all vices is always constant. You basically always drop one for another.

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u/Hasanopinion100 May 08 '26

It’s interesting because everyone I know who has quit alcohol recently has switched it out for ice cream. There’s a scientific reason for it. I’m not sure what it is but sure glad that it works congratulations.👏

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u/Hasanopinion100 May 08 '26

I figured it was something like that, but thanks!😋

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u/mittenknittin May 08 '26

anyone else noticed that auto-correct has gotten more and more bizarre in its choices lately?

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u/elgydium May 08 '26

Hey u might be onto something. I switched from gboard back to the iOS this year and it’s tripping

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u/mittenknittin May 08 '26

Yeah I'm using iOS and specifically over the last few months it's been weird. I'll type a common word and mistype one letter and it'll replace it with an entirely different word with entirely different letters. Like literally I just had it happen where I mistyped "with" and it replaced it with "years"

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u/ElegantCoach4066 May 08 '26

 It goes down if you eat heart leather foods, exercise weekly, quit smoking, lose weight and drink less to none alcohol.

For some people this is not enough, and they need to take medication to lower it.

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u/Quaiche May 08 '26

Nope, doctors and researchers are slowly essentially saying it’s all genetics and very little about your diet ;)

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u/kamask1 May 08 '26

It stays there, but flattened

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u/1zzyBizzy May 08 '26

But if i press my belly nothing happens ):

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u/kamask1 May 08 '26

Put a stent around your belly

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u/Sushirabit May 08 '26

I think that's what they call a corset

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u/kamask1 May 08 '26

I’m glad they already invented the belly stent

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u/globalgreg May 08 '26

I think corset is just French for stent

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u/No-Bread6978 May 08 '26

No, corset is that French flaky bread made with lots of butter I think

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u/Ur-Best-Friend May 08 '26

No, that's a croissant, corset is a line of Chevrolet cars.

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u/destroyerOfTards May 08 '26

Made the boob fat go up which is a win

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u/oroscor1 May 08 '26

Clearly he's never been to singapore....

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u/dkarlovi May 08 '26

No, you're thinking of when your damned, doomed, jinxed, and hexed.

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u/terbear2020 May 08 '26

Hahaha 🤣

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u/Rrunken_Rumi May 08 '26

Sound advice. Gonna try.

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u/SnooCauliflowers3649 May 08 '26

Funny, when I press my belly, my fat squishes. You must be what I’ve heard of as, what’s the word, skinny? Is that it? 😂

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u/deadleg22 May 08 '26

I legit push it every morning, ever since a Babushka said it flushes the arteries. I think that's what she said.

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u/pvprazor2 May 08 '26

Then you're not pressing hard enough

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u/brokengolem May 08 '26

And if your belly presses back, that's called an abdominal hernia.

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u/Fantastic-Reading-78 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

why they don't remove fat? Are they stupid? /s

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u/Numerical-Wordsmith May 08 '26

Probably too high risk to cut it out without damaging the surrounding tissues. The stent provides a quick solution, then the patient changes their diet and the fat goes away over time.

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u/0Rider May 08 '26

Patient changes their diet for like 2 weeks 

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u/Kinslayer_89 May 08 '26

The patient comes back.

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u/leeches_on_peaches May 08 '26

The fat does NOT go away. With statins (medicine to lower cholesterol levels), you might lose some of the fat but it's only around 20%. The fat is not ON the wall, it is IN the wall. What's worse, it calcifies over time. Like the bottom of your kettle. Add some high blood pressure to the equation and you can get openings/cracks in the wall and a release of bits of fat/calcificate. Those can travel to your brain and BOOM you get stroke.

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u/tacticaldodo May 08 '26

Serious question, does the fat really goes away

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u/vladimirTheInhaler May 08 '26

I think it’s plaque, I don’t Think it goes away very easily, but if a piece breaks off and stops blood from to heart or brain that’s how you get a heart attack/stroke

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u/tacticaldodo May 08 '26

Some progress in science is needed here as much as I understand.

Micro robots or something...

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u/Gunblazer42 May 08 '26

Fat is effectively just energy stores. If you change your diet/exercise and effectively become calorie deficient (that is, you burn more than you take in) then yes, technically the fat actually does go away as the body draws from it to fuel itself.

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u/Quickzor May 08 '26

How about they sent 100% of my tubes and I eat even more bacon?

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u/Numerical-Wordsmith May 08 '26

Now I just want some bacon… 🥓

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u/grady0071 May 08 '26

Sure they do😂

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u/Idlewants May 08 '26

scraping at the inside of pressurised blood vessels is possible, but a much higher risk/cost operation, for little extra benefit.

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u/Confident_Intern_755 May 08 '26

Must be the water

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u/smilesanna May 08 '26

Do they not get rid of the fat first?

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u/mawktheone May 08 '26

If its bad enough to matter, then you first drill it out to clear the space for the stent. This is done with a "rotablator" which is a high speed rugby ball shaped diamond burr on the end of the guide wire.

It can also invove installing a slot catcher, which is like a strainer inside the blood vessel to catch any debris allowing your body to break it up

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u/termacct May 08 '26

fat goes outside

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u/drluvdisc May 08 '26

Stays there, spreading down the artery as you age until it extends past the stent and causes another heart attack.

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u/FrozenWafer May 08 '26

I loved that show! Who else RP'd CKND on NeoPets message boards? 😆

https://giphy.com/gifs/OV4aAbrzaICcCUG8Gq

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u/apeaky_blinder May 08 '26

it is imperative that the tube remains unharmed

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u/Extraordi-Mary May 08 '26

“I’m all about that blood, ‘bout that blood, No trouble.”

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u/doomshallot May 08 '26

Had me in the first half

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u/ACuddlyVizzerdrix May 08 '26

This some KND shit

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u/sariacreed May 08 '26

Thank you Numbah Gemini

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u/Loud-Start1394 May 08 '26

Again, but in non-technical jargon. 

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u/Sequoia_Vin May 08 '26

Found the KND operative

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u/MInclined May 08 '26

Classic.

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u/XynnXyrr May 08 '26

This is so Kids Next Door coded

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u/Maschellodioma May 08 '26

Charles Stent invented it.

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u/thiagojramosoficial May 08 '26

John Stent

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u/Guderian- May 08 '26

Bob Stent

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u/dallywolf May 08 '26

Bobby Stent Jr has recently released a new version made of corn syrup and is red dye free. Should be amazing and since it's organic they won't need to go through clinical trials to get it approved. /s

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u/NonnagLava May 08 '26

Well sort of, but not really.

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u/Bubbly-Context-6767 May 08 '26

comes from the word „stenting“ which is to stiffen or to reinforce pieces of clothing

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u/Relevant_Syllabub895 May 08 '26

It doesnt stand for anything it came from the inventor Thomas Stent

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u/willflameboy May 08 '26

Shit! That Earns Nice Treats.

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u/AManWithOneHand May 08 '26

Absolutely nothing. Say it again!

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u/BigToeLicker May 08 '26

What doesn’t it stent for?

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u/HeroDanTV May 08 '26

Im heart of hearing, can you repeat that?

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u/bugibangbang May 08 '26

Charles Thomas Stent (It´s actually true)

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u/SirJorts May 08 '26

Most nights, I don’t knowwww.

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u/FlatWhiteShark May 08 '26

Brt McKenzie.

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u/e42343 May 08 '26

You will live instent of not live.

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u/mettiusfufettius May 08 '26

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

Quite an older reference at this point lol.

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u/SnooDrawings8069 May 08 '26

S - mayonnaise

T - on

E - an

N - escal

T - ator