Diabetics Warned Not to Take High Doses of Vitamin B

Thu, 29 Apr 2010
Diabetics with kidney disease who are on high doses of B vitamins to prevent heart attacks ought to stop taking them instantly as they are possibly extremely harmful.

As opposed to reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke, the vitamins seem to increase it, so reported Canadian researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Assn.

Around 21 million Americans and 3 million Canadians have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes .

It is considered that approximately 40% of them are going to develop diabetic nephropathy, whereby the function of the kidneys is impaired.

Diabetics usually have more than normal levels of the amino acid homocysteine in their blood. Increased levels are related to a higher risk of heart disease .

B vitamins normally lower homocysteine levels which researchers had also thought they would improve kidney function.

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