EDTA Chelation/Hypertension Study: Clinical Patterns as Judged by the Cornell Medical Index Questionnaire

Twenty-eight hypertensive patients were clinically evaluated by means of the Cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire. Following intravenous EDTA therapy, improvement was evident in all systems. Additionally, a case is made for the value of a standardized medical appraisal system in the evaluation of the effectiveness of intravenous EDTA chelation as a therapeutic modality. Introduction A review of the recent editions of a number of the classical internal medicine textbooks suggests, as one might expect, that the hypertension syndrome presents with a spectrum of symptomatology, ranging from no clinical signs or symptoms (silent hypertension) to diverse and severe symptomatology and causality. The growing consensus, however, seems to be that even so-called "benign essential hypertension" is neither benign nor essential, but rather the tip of a diagnostic iceberg whose ultimate mass is as yet not seen. 2 The only pathognomonic sign of "early or impending hypertension" is elevated blood pressure. Early detection of the structural and functional characteristics of a given patient's hypertension symptom matrix could conceivably lead to more effective prevention and treatment. As might be expected,