The elderly eat more folic acid to defend " The heart " Disease

The elderly eat more folic acid to defend " The heart " Disease
London, March 7 (Reuter's medical news) According to a latest result of study, the elderly should take until person who recommend high time of folic acids come, reduce apoplexy, the intersection of thrombus and disease and danger that heart disease take place at present. These 3 - year long research is favoured the trust committee of the health to subsidize, 75 -year-old experimenters of men and women including getting in 65 at 368 ages. The intersection of they and from Aberdeen of Scotland two comprehensive dispensary, accept, last 6 weeks different the intersection of folic acid and tablet treatment of dosage. Researchers find, only take folic acid (400-600mg) of maximum dose Experimenter appear by cardiovascular vessel just is the diseases tagged factor - -Reducing of homocysteine level. This result of study is published on " medical quarterly ". Responsible for the the intersection of Michael Golden and Professor of research think " the intersection of suggestion and we this can save a lot of life of people, promote the health and improve life quality, and saves a large number of health service funds. " Dr. Ross Taylor who Aberdeen university medical college participates in studying says, British food and medical committee of nutrition policy recommend the old man over 50 besides absorbing 300mg folic acid in the diet in majority, should also take in folic acid of 200mg extraly every day. He points out in the report, " but we find that should take folic acid close to dosage of 3 times to guarantee, thus reduce the danger of the vascular disease. " Taylor Dr. say " because of the limitations of majority's edible fruit and vegetables quantity, can not satisfied so many folic acid is taken in. So you need to try hard to eat the rich food containing folic acid, the best method is to add folic acid into cereal food of the bread, biscuit, cake and breakfast, do it in this way to spend and not big. If supplement extra folic acid by taking tablet, such expenses will not be very high either, may be about 10 pounds for each person every year. " However, researchers warn, it will cause vitamin B12 scarce patient to damage the nerve of irreversibility to take in too much folic acid, but not cause more common, more easy-to-handle anaemia. This kind of situation can be avoided by taking folic acid and B12 these two kinds of vitamins at the same time. They say, because the elderly are usually not easy to absorb vitamin B12 in the diet, so the elderly especially present vitamin B12 easily scarcely. In fact, have a lot of old person have critical B12 scarce vitamin that routine inspection can't measure in the the research. Researchers summarize to think, " this result of study has proposed a public and healthy awkward situation, the elderly need to take in more folic acid in the diet, it is scarce but quite a few of people have vitamin B12 not realized, this can only sift checking to find by experiment more sensitive than present method. "

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