Vitamin therapy produces regression of atherosclerosis.

From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Gaby, Alan R. | Copyright information

One hundred-one patients (mean age, 53 years) with multiple risk factors for atherosclerosis, most of whom also had clinically manifest atherosclerosis, were treated daily with folic acid (2.5 mg), pyridoxine (25 mg), and cyanocobalamin (250 mcg). In 51 patients, the initial plasma homocyst(e)ine concentration was above 14 micromol/l, (a level commonly regarded as high enough to warrant treatment), and in 50 patients the concentration was below 14 micromol/l. Among patients with in...

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