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To: Doc Bones who wrote (178)3/12/2006 11:27:44 PM
From: zeta1961  Respond to of 577
 
<B vitamins and heart attacks> Ouch, Doc..I've always silently[not loudly anyway-g-] rooted for Dr. McCully.

"The evidence is clear that this type of vitamin therapy is really not effective in reversing or benefiting advanced vascular disease," said the hypothesis's father, Dr. Kilmer McCully of the V.A. Boston Health Care System in West Roxbury. Dr. McCully first proposed that homocysteine caused heart disease in 1969 and literally sacrificed his career to the hypothesis.

newhope.com

Here is the NEJM editorial

content.nejm.org