Chelation Therapy for Vascular Disease

Chelation Therapy for Vascular Disease

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Metal ions, Alzheimer's disease and chelation therapy.

In the last few years, various studies have been providing evidence that metal ions are critically involved in the pathogenesis of major neurological diseases (Alzheimer, Parkinson). Metal ion chelators have been suggested as potential therapies for diseases involving metal ion imbalance. Neurodegeneration is an excellent target for exploiting the metal chelator approach to therapeutics. In con...

Chelation Therapy for Intermittent Claudication and Coronary Heart Disease

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EDTA chelation therapy for cardiovascular disease: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Numerous practitioners of both conventional and complementary and alternative medicine throughout North America and Europe claim that chelation therapy with EDTA is an effective means to both control and treat cardiovascular disease. These claims are controversial, and several randomized controlled trials have been completed dealing with this topic. To address this issue we conducted...

Does chelation therapy work for ischemic heart disease?