According to a report published in ...

According to a report published in the November 29 2001 issue of the novel England Journal of Medicine, patients who bear angioplasty are less likely to view their arteries narrow if they take a combination of B vitamins for at least six month after the proceeding The study, which was l by means of Guido Schnyder, MD, of the University of California at San Diego Medical Center included 205 patients who took either a placebo or a combination of 1 mg of folic acid, 400 micrograms of vitamin B12 and 10 mg of vitamin B6 Findings indicated that 196 percent of patients upon vitamin therapy experienced restenosis (narrowing of the arteries), while 376 percent of those onward placebo suffered the condition.

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