To take a red yeast rice supplement every day would permit to reduce risks it half of recidivism at people having been victims of a heart attack, according to a survey chinoise1.
The clinical test that lasted more than four years, followed 4 870 people of 18 years to 70 years having undergone a coronary thrombosis during the 60 months preceding the beginning of the survey. half among them took two capsules of 300 mg of red yeast rice daily (or Xuezhikang2, 3), while the other took a placebo.
Among the patients who took the supplement, 5.7% underwent a cardiac trouble importing, or no fatal. This proportion rose to 10.4% at those that consumed the placebo. It represents a reduction of the risk of 45%.
Besides, the patients who followed the treatment to the red yeast rice ran 30% less risk to die of a cardiovascular accident. And their risk to undergo a cardiac surgical intervention has also been reduced of 30%.
The red yeast rice would have had a beneficial effect on the blood cholesterol of the participants while decreasing their rates of triglycerides and LDL cholesterol while increasing and the rate of good cholesterol.
The researchers of the university of Peking did not clarify the mechanism of action of the red yeast rice, a food that the Chinese consume millennia since, again. The supplements contained other compounds that the lovastatin. a cholesterol-lowering substance contained in the red yeast rice – being able to them also to have beneficial effects on the cardiac health, they specify.
Another survey led in more of China on 4 000 topics having undergone a coronary thrombosis got similar results: the red yeast rice would have reduced the risk of relapse and death, notably when it has been managed in the weeks that followed the infarctus4.
Less secondary effects?
Pharmacist Jean-Yves Dionne, specialist of the natural health products, said himself / itself pleasantly surprised by the results of the present survey. "Research seems very strong as much by his / her / its length, by the number of patients that implied by the very meaningful results", he / it underlines.
The red yeast rice is interesting because it contains the naturally lovastatin, an ingredient contained in the Mevacor, a medicine often used to reduce the blood cholesterol, explain Jean-Yves Dionne. "However, the doses managed long-term at the time of this survey are a lot weaker than those usually used for the treatment of the cardiovascular illnesses. The secondary effects of the product lessen find" himself thus of it, he / it specifies.
The red yeast rice is not offered in pharmacy to Quebec, but it is in some trades natural product and on the Internet, underline Jean-Yves Dionne. On the other hand, he / it puts consumers in the guard against the self. In the case of cardiovascular illnesses, the interaction enters the natural products and the medicines can be dangerous.
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