The Energy-Boosting Supplement That Could HALVE The Number Of Deaths From Heart Failure

• Coenzyme Q10 is first drug shown to reduce heart failure deaths in a decade
• Known as CoQ10, it is a vitamin-like supplement sold in health food shops
• CoQ10 levels are decreased in the heart muscle of patients with heart failure
• The pill – which is ‘a natural and safe substance’ – can be taken with statins and ‘should now be added to conventional treatment, say experts

By Jenny Hope Medical Correspondent

PUBLISHED: 06:46 EST, 27 May 2013 | UPDATED: 06:46 EST, 27 May 2013

Daily Mail

Supplements of a popular energy-booster could halve death rates among people with heart failure, claim scientists.

The vitamin-like supplement coenzyme Q10 also reduces hospital admissions, says a major new study.

It is the first drug shown to save the lives of heart failure patients in more than a decade – and it is available over the counter in health food shops.

CoQ10 – which can be taken with statins – should now be added to conventional treatment for such patients, according to Professor Svend Aage Mortensen, who led the study.

Professor Mortensen said: ‘CoQ10 is the first medication to improve survival in chronic heart failure since ACE inhibitors and beta blockers more than a decade ago and should be added to standard heart failure therapy.

‘Other heart failure medications block rather than enhance cellular processes and may have side effects.

‘Supplementation with CoQ10, which is a natural and safe substance, corrects a deficiency in the body and blocks the vicious metabolic cycle in chronic heart failure.’

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