B Vitamins Come Up Empty Again for Secondary Heart Disease Prevention

Witch doctoring fails again. (Same as "real" medicine.)

"For patients with coronary artery disease, homocysteine-lowering B vitamins may do little to prevent cardiovascular events, researchers here found.

The risk of major cardiovascular adverse events was not diminished by either the combination of folic acid and vitamin B12 (P=0.36) or vitamin B6 (P=0.28) compared with patients not taking these vitamins, reported Marta Ebbing, M.D., of Haukeland University Hospital, and colleagues here in the Aug. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Despite a substantial 30% reduction in homocysteine levels with the vitamins in the randomized trial, the researchers cautioned against use for secondary prevention in patients with coronary artery disease."

Guess you will just have to rely on plain old fitness to keep your heart healthy.