Vitamin C could slow heart failure

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Vitamin C " could slow heart failure "

Published on: 30-10-2001

Vitamin C could extend the lives of heart failure sufferers by suppressing

the " death programme " in blood vessel cells, according to a study. The

antioxidant properties of vitamin C may be able to stop blood vessel cells

from self-destructing in people with congestive heart failure, say German

scientists. Congestive heart failure is a condition where blood vessels

malfunction, weakening the heart and restricting blood supply to the body.

A " death programme " inside blood vessel cells, which causes them to

self-destruct, is thought to cause the condition, according to the

researchers. They say that oxidative stress - increased by factors such as

smoking and eating fatty foods - can trigger these programmes.

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