Chelation-therapy heart trial draws fire

Chelation therapy after the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy: results of a unique trial

PURPOSE OF REVIEW EDTA chelation therapy has been in off-label use for the treatment of atherosclerosis. We review the results of the first large-scale randomized trial of this treatment. RECENT FINDINGS The trial to assess chelation therapy was a $30 million National Institutes of Health-funded study of the safety and efficacy of EDTA-based chelation infusions in 1708 post-myocardial infarct...

Iron chelation therapy: you gotta have heart.

Chelation Therapy for Intermittent Claudication and Coronary Heart Disease

Use a structured format…………………………………………………………… Y N NA N N Y Describe Objectives The clinical question explicitly……………………………………………………. Y N NA Y Y Y Data sources The databases (ie, list) and other information sources……………………….. Y N NA N N Y Review methods The selection criteria (ie, population, intervention, outcome, and study design); methods for validity assessment, data abstraction, and study ...

Does chelation therapy work for ischemic heart disease?

EDTA Chelation Therapy

This study measured excretion of 11 minerals induced by EDTA chelation therapy in 25 adults (aluminum, cadmium, calcium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, mercury, zinc). We administered 20 EDTA infusions (3 g, with magnesium and ascorbate) 1 to 2 weeks apart and measured 24-hr urinary excretions of minerals before treatment and after treatments 1, 10, and 20. A modest supplem...