Her psychologist testified that Chakalis feared the chelation therapy because it was painful and fatiguing.
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They said that the results were not strong enough to support the routine use of chelation therapy.
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On the one hand, most physicians and scientists have dismissed chelation therapy as lacking any evidence or rationale.
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We have billion dollar drugs like niacin and fenofibrate and ezetimibe that have less evidence than chelation therapy has now.
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Known as TACT (Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy), the highly controversial trial was presented today at the AHA by Gervasio Lamas.
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This would be awfully difficult for naturopaths, whose practices include homeopathy, colloidal silver treatments, and chelation therapy, to name but a few.
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On the other hand, chelation therapy is strongly supported by the alternative medicine community and more than 100, 000 people receive chelation therapy each year.
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If we have little faith in chelation therapy, then it is hard to turn 180 degrees with a positive result and suddenly completely believe in it and recommend its use.
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With a result that is likely to surprise and baffle much of the mainstream medical community, a large NIH-sponsored trial has turned up the first substantial evidence in support of chelation therapy for patients with coronary disease.
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The trial showed that patients randomized to chelation therapy had a lower risk of a combined endpoint of death, heart attack, stroke, percutaneous coronary intervention, bypass surgery or hospitalization for angina than those who received a placebo infusion.
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Unfortunately, some quack doctors have experimented with chelation therapy on autistic children, despite that fact that it can cause deadly liver and kidney damage, and one of them caused the death of a 5-year-old boy in 2005.
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