Vitamins after angioplasty. (Quick Studies).Angioplasty angioplasty (ăn`jēōplăs'tē), any surgical repair of a blood vessel, especially balloon angioplasty or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a treatment of coronary artery disease. patients who were given three B-vitamins to lower their homocysteine Homocysteine Definition Homocysteine is a naturally occurring amino acid found in blood plasma. High levels of homocysteine in the blood are believed to increase the chance of heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and osteoporosis. levels were 32 percent less likely to have a "major adverse event"--that includes death, a heart attack, or the need to repeat the angioplasty--over the next year. The patients took folic acid folic acid: see coenzyme; vitamin. folic acid or folate Organic compound essential to animal growth and health and needed by bacteria as a growth factor. (1,000 micrograms a day), vitamin B-12 (400 micrograms a day), and vitamin B-6 (10 milligrams a day) for six months after their angioplasty. What to do: If you are scheduled for angioplasty, talk to your doctor about taking these high doses of B-vitamins. (A typical multi has 400 micrograms of folic acid, 6 to 25 micrograms of B-12, and 2 milligrams of B-6.) J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 288: 973, 2002. |
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