Chicago - August 2002. A reevaluation of the EDTA Chelation study (Knudson, et. al.) published in the Jan 23/30 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and magnesium exhibit substantial and important benefits to cardiovascular patients.
"We were surprised that they used Vitamin C and magnesium in both study groups, including the placebo group," said Wisconsin EDTA Chelation expert Dr. Robert Waters, MD. "The results are quite exciting, especially in light of the Linus Pauling/Matthias Rath unified theory that predicts substantial benefits from vitamin C in heart disease."
The Pauling/Rath theory considers occlusive cardiovascular disease to be a chronic form of scurvy, the classic vitamin C deficiency disease, which leads to an increase in a variant of LDL cholesterol, lipoprotein(a) or Lp(a) for short.
"The study group size was chosen, according to the JAMA paper, to provide a 90% confidence of finding a 60-second increase in treadmill exercise time to ischemia. That is exactly what the study found in both groups," said Owen Fonorow of the Vitamin C Foundation (www.vitamincfoundation.org). A survey of the National Institutes of Health on-line medical database (MEDLINE) showed that several common prescription heart drugs provide no benefit in exercise time to Ischemia. In one study, a 10-second treadmill improvement was considered significant. There are no studies that show cholesterol lowering statin drugs increase exercise Time to Ischemia.
"This study, the first of its kind to use Intravenous (IV) vitamin C in an evaluation of coronary and cardiovascular disease, proves the benefit of vitamin C plus magnesium. This surprising result creates a moral obligation for medical doctors to use the combination of vitamin C and magnesium in the treatment of cardiovascular disease until something even more effective is found," said Fonorow.
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