Fifty-four percent of patients had at least 3 symptoms of congestive heart failure improve. Other studies have found that the improvements seen with CoQ10 have allowed for a significant number of patients to reduce or eliminate up to three pharmaceutical drugs they had been taking. This is a great benefit because the side effects of cardiac drugs are frequent, unpleasant, and sometimes so severe that it's difficult for cardiologist to find a combination of drugs that work and patients can tolerate. CoQ10 has also been shown to improve angina or chest pain, improve arrhythmias, protect the heart during cardiac surgery, and help prevent atherosclosis. It is found in near-epidemic numbers of Americans.
Hypertension can lead to heart disease, heart failure, kidney failure and strokes.
In the late 1970s, it was documented that in patients with high blood pressure, CoQ10 levels were low. Studies have shown that when these patients are given CoQ10 their blood pressure will go down. It's not uncommon for it to take up to 4 - 12 weeks before the blood pressure reducing effects of CoQ10 are seen. Studies have also shown that at least 50 percent of patients were able to go off one to three of their anti-hypertensive medications. If we have too many oxygen free radicals from smoking, pollution, pesticides, alcohol and too much stress, the results can be very destructive.