Vitamin B does not work to prevent heart disease

According to a study published in the August issue of Lancet Neurology, B vitamins are safe, but they seem to have no protective effect on people who have had a heart attack.

Stroke patient (Artwork - Source: Internet)

This finding has made people who encourage the use of vitamin B confused. These people believe that folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12 can prevent heart disease by reducing the level of a substance called homocysteine ​​in the blood.

Dr. Graeme Hankey and colleagues at the University of Western Australia monitored more than 8,000 patients with stroke over an average period of more than 3.5 years. These patients were divided into two groups, one taking placebo and the other taking vitamin B.

The results show that there is no difference in side effects between the two groups mentioned above. In the placebo group, 114 patients (about 3%) died of heart attack compared with 118 patients (also about 3%) in the vitamin B group.

For stroke, the corresponding rates in the two groups were 10% (388 patients), respectively, compared to 9% (360 patients).

Meanwhile, neurologist Peter Sandercock of Western General Hospital in the UK also said that vitamin B does not work for patients with heart attacks."Dietary supplements by taking B vitamins will never work," Sandercock said.