Chinese Red Yeast Rice Is Good For Your Heart, Study Suggests

Monday, June 9, 2008 - 16:14 in Health & Medicine

A clinical study on patients who have suffered a heart attack found that a partially purified extract of Chinese red yeast rice, Xuezhikang, reduced the risk of repeat heart attacks by 45 percent, revascularization (bypass surgery/angioplasty), cardiovascular mortality and total mortality by one-third and cancer mortality by two-thirds. The multicenter, randomized, double-blind study, was conducted on almost 5,000 patients in the People's Republic of China.

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