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Researchers also reported a significant decrease in the number of
hospitalizations for heart failure patients being treated with Coenzyme
Q10 (CoQ10). About 14 percent of patients taking the supplement
suffered from a major cardiovascular event that required hospital
treatment, compared with 25 percent of patients receiving placebos.
In heart failure, the heart becomes weak and can no longer pump enough oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood throughout the body. Patients often experience fatigue and breathing problems as the heart enlarges and pumps faster in an effort to meet the body's needs.
The study is scheduled to be presented Saturday at the annual
meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of
Cardiology, in Lisbon, Portugal.
"CoQ10 is the first medication to improve survival in chronic heart failure since ACE inhibitors and beta blockers more than a decade ago and should be added to standard heart failure therapy," lead researcher Svend Aage Mortensen, a professor with the Heart Center at Copenhagen University Hospital, in Denmark, said in a society news release.
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