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From the Associated Press:
Heart attack survivors are again being enrolled in a controversial federal study of an alternative treatment while the government investigates whether they were told enough about possible health risks.
The $30 million study, with 1,500 participants so far, is one of the largest alternative medicine experiments ever launched. It tests high doses of vitamin and mineral supplements and chelation, a treatment used for lead poisoning that has not been proved safe or effective for heart disease.
Researchers suspended enrollment last August, when the federal Office of Human Research Protections began a probe into whether the people in the study were being fully informed of risks and adequately protected.
Chelation (pronounced kee-LAY-shun) involves intravenous doses of a drug, in this case disodium EDTA. Proponents claim it can flush out calcium that has built up in artery walls. Stiff or clogged arteries can lead to heart problems. There already are several conventional treatments for heart disease, including medicines, surgery and artery-clearing angioplasty.
When the study began in 2002, it aimed to enroll 2,400 people at more than 100 sites in the United States and Canada. But recruitment has lagged, and study leaders now hope to enroll at least 1,700.
Around a long time, IV Chelation therapy has is detractors and proponents. My wife works for an eye doctor whose father and grandfather had major blockages in their corotid arteries. After undergoing this therapy, both blockages were substantially reduced. It is also practiced in some countries in Europe. The time for a study of this technique is long overdue in the United States. Should chelation therapy prove effective, there won’t be too many patients walking around with 25 stents or bypass surgery scars. Of course, there will also be a great loss of cash flow for both surgeons and interventionalists.
Hmmm.
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Your article on IV EDTA Chelation therapy is great. You hit the nail on the head when you spoke of “great loss of cash flow for both surgeons and interventionalists.” There is so much vested “big money” and “interest” in traditional medical practices and big pharma that alternative methods on treating heart disease are either invalidated, squashed, sneered at or don’t appear on the radar screen!
Its now mid 2009 and am quite curious on what the fed government came up with on their studies of EDTA usage? I’m very very skeptical of what studies the government runs especially in light of the majority of government FDA heads had past positions in big pharma like Lilly. I spoke to my doctor this week who is an advocate of IV Chelation using both EDTA and DSA. I spoke to him of oral Chelation he too sees oral Chelation as a very valid alternative treatment you can do in your own home. He has no vested interest other than seeing his patients get well.
I’m taking EDTA Oral Chelation and swear by it. I do have a web site dedicated to Oral Chelation that is rich in resource information on heart disease. Arterial sclerosis, atherosclerosis, stoke etc.
As a closing statement, my father had by-pass surgery back in 1979, after suffering a heart attack. Though the surgery helped it only handled that immediate symptom. Through tests, 5 years later it was found his arteries were hardening and towards the end of his life he had severe arteriolosclerosis. This is despite taking cholesterol leveling drugs. With Chelation therapy he could have as well handled the internal “causes”.
I would love to see a nutritional product I use, used along with the effectiveness of EDTA chelation. I can appreciate the need to remove the plaque, but it will only return if the endothelium is not taking care . If you are using EDTA I would encourage you to investigate Arginine, Omega 3 and vitamin D and along with antioxidants…I have many testimonials from individuals who have benefited…Check it out at mycardiograde.com and look for the testimonials….