Researchers looked at a large group of people who came to the hospital with a sudden heart problem between 2014 and 2025. Out of more than ten thousand cases, about one in eight had a bypass operation on the heart vessels. Among those, they focused on the subset that also had a narrowing in the neck artery.
They examined 188 patients who had both heart and neck artery issues. About seventy percent of them received treatment in two steps: first fixing the neck artery, then the heart vessels. The remaining thirty percent had both procedures done at the same operation. The average age was around sixty-five years, with a slight difference between the two groups that was not statistically significant. Most of the participants were men, and on average each person had disease in just over three