Vitamin therapy
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cardiovascular disorder therapy, nutrition disorder chemotherapy
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Scope Note
applies to any therapeutic use of vitamins, whether necessitated by nutritional deficiency or not.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- Piracetam which is included with the particular vitamin therapy is a drug, not a vitamin.
- Megadose vitamin therapy is the use of vitamins in amounts considerably greater than the recommended daily allowance, or RDA.
- [New England Journal of Medicine 351: 23–32, 2004] Harvard researchers responded by saying vitamin therapy is important but may not replace anti-viral drug therapy.
- Until there is definitive evidence that vitamin therapy is beneficial, this alternative therapy should be approached with caution.
- , director of cardiovascular research and academic affairs at Mount Sinai Medical Center-Miami Heart Institute in Miami Beach, Florida, will test whether EDTA chelation therapy and/or high-dose vitamin therapy is effective for the treatment of CAD.
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