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Chelation Therapy
Dr. Robert Michler, Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Departments of Surgery and Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center chats about the controversial alternative heart treatment, chelation therapy.
- This article from Healthday presents the background information on this topic. Controversial Alternative Heart Treatment Shows Hint of Benefit
Summary re the study: #Chelation therapy is on the horizon, and always will be. #HealthTalk- @EverydayHealth Both. #Chelation tx never been proven effective. Even in this recent study. #HealthTalk
- #Chelation therapy comes w/ risks related to high volume infusion, not to mention outrageous costs. #HealthTalk
- @HeartDiseases the #diabetes population in study was not large enough to draw any conclusions or statistics from. #HealthTalk
- @ConsciousChick1 No, I would not recommend for ppl to do a "detox" regardless of #HeartDisease #HealthTalk
- No, I would not recommend #chelation for #HeartHealth to anyone. Not worth the risks or cost. #HealthTalk
- @MontefioreNews FDA has not approved #chelation therapy for anyone. Especially not children! #HealthTalk
- @EverydayHealth #Chelation has yet to be proven effective. I would not recommend for "detox". #HealthTalk
- RT @HealthBarnUSA @heartdiseases:FDA warned against comps selling OTC chelation products 4 autism&heart diz–both shld be avoided #HealthTalk
- RT @HeartDiseases: can cause low calcium levels & sudden drop in calcium which can mean heart arrhythmia & seizures #HealthTalk #HealthTalk
- Risks of #chelation tx incld sudden drop in calcium leading to heart arrhythmia, seizures & dangerous change in #BloodPressure #HealthTalk
