Coronary Artery Disease

Vitamins May Prevent Repeat Blockage Of The Coronary Artery

Published in Blood Weekly, December 20th, 2001

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine cardiologists, in conjunction with the Swiss Cardiovascular Center, have found vitamins that cost only pennies prevent repeat blockage of the coronary artery after angioplasty.

The findings were reported in the November 29, 2001, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Coronary angioplasty is a procedure in which atherosclerotic plaques that build up and clog the coronary arteries are compressed against the vessel wall by expanding a balloon-like device inserted through a catheter that has been threaded through the artery. Hundreds of thousands of these procedures are performed in...

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