Vitamin C may help Heart Failure Patient health
Heart Failure is one of main killer in the human live, this because, heart failure is influenced by many factor. Now based on the latest research, vitamin C may help patient with death failure potential. Based on the new research, people with heart failure are almost twice likely to be hospitalized or die because heart attacks than people who get enough vitamin C from vitamin C rich foods.

People who rarely or didn’t get enough vitamin C in their diet, are have twice high levels of C reactive protein (CRP) in their blood. The CRP is often linked as a cause of heart attack. The research show, people with heart failure is live longer if they get enough vitamins C. This is According to Grace Song, PhD, RN research. Song is a assistant professor in Nursing Department at the Ulsan University, South Korea. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, help heart failure with calming down an inflammation in the body. The other researchers said that Vitamin C improve the health condition of the heart. But other researcher also said that Vitamin C didn’t help heart failure patient directly. Vitamin C help patient with improve the general condition of patient body, not improve the condition of the heart. And diet with high composition of Fruits and Vegetables lowers the risk of heart disease. In other finding, vitamin C supplement didn’t help improve the health of people with heart failure potential. So the patient shouldn’t take the vitamin C supplements. This finding was presented in the 2011 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

The study involved 212 heart failure patients. The average age of the patients was 61. Two-third of them was men. The research is by kept track of the all foods they ate in four days, software is used to calculate the vitamin C they obtained. The patients also have given the CRP blood test. The result is 39% of them didn’t get enough vitamins C. and the following year 29% of them is hospitalized or die by heart attack. This research is funded by American Heart Association, The national institutes of health, and the National Institute of Nursing Research

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