EDTA chelation therapy meets evidence-based medicine

British Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-6

  Lamas, Gervasio A ^a   Hussein, Steven J ^b  

^a The Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; EDETATE CALCIUM; EDETATE DISODIUM; EDETIC ACID; INSULIN; MAGNESIUM; PLACEBO; VITAMIN;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHELATION THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG COST; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLUID BALANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LIFESTYLE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; NEPHROTOXICITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; TETANY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 33644618116     PISSN: 09696113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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