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Chelation Therapy

Chelation Therapy

I am 61 years old and had a major heart attack and triple by-pass 20 years ago.  I recently received a defibrilator because of my low ejection fraction.  However, my stress test results are excellent and I recently reached 15 METS.  I am taking Altace, Coreg, Zocor, and Niaspan.  My cholesteral is execllent.  Do you think I could benefit from chelation therapy?  What are the benefits and risks?
Thank you.
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Overall Chelation is great, if some one is ready to provide it to you, normally doc'c deprive this system to patients, with less ejection fraction below 30 % weekly one time IV would be safe and permited or else you will have to go in to oral chelation tablets which are also great, just keep on using them according to your doctors advice it just cleans up clogged arteries ok nothing else thereby keeping your plumbing going and going. Thanks.
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    If having a lighter wallet is part of your heart therapy program, then chelation is for you.  The American Heart Association's position is as follows:  The American Heart Association has reviewed the available literature on using chelation (ke-LA'shun) (E.D.T.A., ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid) to treat arteriosclerotic (ar-te"re-o-skleh-ROT'ik) heart disease.  We found no scientific evidence to demonstrate any benefit from this form of therapy.

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