Red Yeast Rice Extract And Heart Disease

An “extract used in Chinese meals may be good for the heart”, The Daily Telegraph reports. The extract of Chinese red yeast rice, which “gives Peking duck its red colour”, was found to reduce the risk of dying from heart disease, or having another heart attack, in a study of almost 5,000 Chinese adults who had previously had a heart attack, the newspaper said. It adds that, “deaths from cancer were also reduced by two thirds”.

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Filed under: Cardiovascular on June 10th, 2008