Analysis of raw data from that study proves that EDTA chelation therapy was highly effective in treating arterial blockage in the legs. . The manufacturer of the control drug funded the study and reserved the right to manipulate and report the data in their own way. Patients who responded best were eliminated from the final data and results were measured and reported 3 months before full improvement from EDTA would be expected. Analysis of raw data from that study proves that EDTA chelation therapy was highly effective in treating arterial blockage in the legs. The adverse side effects described by Saul Green were reported many years ago when massive doses of EDTA were infused in a very short time.
Any medicine given in overdose can cause harm.
There are no documented reports of harm when EDTA has been administered using the currently approved protocol . In the rare reports of adverse side-effects the current protocol was not followed. Fifty thousand people die in automobile accidents every year and another 200,000 are seriously injured. I tell my patients that the drive to the clinic in an automobile to get chelation therapy is statistically far more dangerous that the chelation they receive after they arrive. More than 8,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations each year result from complications of ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin and other widely accepted pain remedies, many of which are available without prescription.