Folic Acid DOES NOT Reduce Risks of Cardiovascular Disease
Just a few days ago, I wrote that folic acid supplementation does the heart good and lowers the risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Now, a new finding study says the opposite:
“The findings of this analysis suggest that folic acid supplementation is ineffective in the secondary prevention of CVD among persons with a history of vascular diseases. Therefore, it is important to focus on strategies of proven benefit in the secondary prevention of CVD, including smoking cessation, lipid reduction, treatment of hypertension and diabetes, maintenance of a healthy weight, and physical activity,” the authors conclude.
Note that this study focused on people with pre-existing vascular diseases. For healthy individuals, the impact of folic acid supplementation on homocysteine levels and CVD, data seems to be “statistically inconclusive“.
For further reading, you can find the meta-analysis study described above in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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