Chelation therapy to prevent diabetes-associated cardiovascular events

Telmisartan to prevent recurrent stroke and cardiovascular events.

BACKGROUND Prolonged lowering of blood pressure after a stroke reduces the risk of recurrent stroke. In addition, inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system in high-risk patients reduces the rate of subsequent cardiovascular events, including stroke. However, the effect of lowering of blood pressure with a renin-angiotensin system inhibitor soon after a stroke has not been clearly established. ...

Indolent zygomycosis associated with deferoxamine chelation therapy.

This paper describes a 71-year-old man with myelodysplasia who required multiple transfusions and subsequent deferoxamine chelation therapy and who then developed indolent cutaneous and probable pulmonary infection with Rhizopus species. The patient did not have rapidly progressive infection as has been described in almost all previously reported deferoxamine-treated patients with zygomycosis. ...

Hypoglycemia, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Events

D iabetes is at epidemic proportions in the U.S. Patients with diabetes are at increased risk for microand macrovascular complications. The benefit of glycemic control in decreasing the risk for microvascular disease is well established. However, the role of glycemic control in decreasing macrovascular complications has been controversial. Several large clinical trials looking at this issue hav...

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...

Atorvastatin did not prevent cardiovascular events or death in patients with type 2 diabetes receiving hemodialysis.