Cocktail of B vitamins folic acid, decreased the need for repeat cardiac surgery
Saturday, August 20th, 2011Thousands of Canadians pence – you can avoid repeating invasive heart procedures to open clogged arteries received a cocktail of vitamins day, new research suggests. American and Swiss researchers, giving a combination of folic acid and B vitamins after angioplasty procedure for a general re-cut and almost half the risk of restenosis of blood vessels in patients with heart disease artery stenosis found.
Called restenosis, repeat the obstruction, the patients with angioplasty, doctors of heart some of it “because it is called the plague of today, raised up to 40% of the hassle. Yes completely after angioplasty, they need open-heart surgery, “some patients” plug up “. “This study, which is very simple. In science the only high is not, and (doctors) and people vitamins, it is possible to prescribe them immediately. We (the government) do not require approval “a new heart treatment, says Dr. Guido Schneider, University of California, New England Journal of Medicine authoritative study, published today in San Diego cardiologist.
More than 25,000 angioplasties, including about 1700 from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute is conducted each year in Canada. The current waiting list of procedures for patients with Heart Institute 67, angioplasties a reservation this month. Worldwide, more than one million patients in the angioplasty annually, incurring a small risk of receiving a heart attack or stroke. In a second study published in The New England Journal of today’s medicine, B vitamins niacin by the researchers found that vitamin or B – 3, cholesterol-lowering controversial general to handle an increase in heart disease possibilities of medicine.