Bangkok: According to a recent study, turmeric may help prevent heart attack, especially for people who have had bypass surgery.
Curcimins is a yellow pigment in turmeric that is known for having antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Bypass surgery is performed to improve the blood supply to the heart muscle. However, during the operation the organ can be damaged by prolonged lack of blood flow, increasing the patient’s risk of heart attack.
The new findings suggest that curcumins may ease risk of heart attack when added to traditional drug treatment.
Wanwarang Wongcharoen from Chiang Mai University in Thailand said the results needed confirmation in further research.
Turmeric extracts have long been used in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine.
The researchers studied 121 patients who had non-emergency bypass surgery at their hospital between 2009 and 2011.
Half of those patients were given one-gram curcumin capsules to take four times a day, starting three days before their surgery and continuing for five days afterwards. The other half took the same number of drug-free placebo capsules.
The researchers found that during their post-bypass hospital stays, 13 per cent of patients who’d been taking curcumins had a heart attack, compared to 30 per cent in the placebo group.
After accounting for any initial pre-surgery differences, Wongcharoen and his colleagues calculated that people on curcumins had a 65 per cent lower chance of heart attack.
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