The effect of an EDTA-based chelation regimen on patients with diabetes mellitus and prior myocardial infarction in the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT).

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Published in Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes on November 19, 2013

Authors

Esteban Escolar1, Gervasio A Lamas, Daniel B Mark, Robin Boineau, Christine Goertz, Yves Rosenberg, Richard L Nahin, Pamela Ouyang, Theodore Rozema, Allan Magaziner, Richard Nahas, Eldrin F Lewis, Lauren Lindblad, Kerry L Lee

Author Affiliations

1: Columbia University Division of Cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL.

Associated clinical trials:

Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) | NCT00044213

Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy 2 (TACT2) | NCT02733185

Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy in Critical Limb Ischemia (TACT3a) | NCT03982693

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