Chubby West saves lives? Possibility of fat around tummy to become a magic bullet for myocardial infarction

Fats around the stomach may be an enemy that is hatred for many people, but fat of such chubby may be a welcome bullet medicine for patients with myocardial infarction.

As a result of a study conducted on a patient with myocardial infarction as a subject, when stem cells extracted from the fat near the waist were administered to myocardial infarction patients, it became clear that the disease condition was going to recover.

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When stem cells derived from the adipose tissue around the waist were administered to the heart of a patient with myocardial infarction, it was discovered that the cells lowered the damage level of the heart, increased the blood flow, and improved the pumping function of the heart .

Eleven men and three women who recently had heart attacks participated in a pilot study named "Apollo". Ten of the patients were treated with stem cells, while the remaining four were treatedplaceboThe study was carried out in a form comparing the medical condition of each group.

Fat for collecting stem cells was obtained by removing fat within 250 cubic centimeters from the patient's abdomen with liposuction (cosmetic method to narrow the waist circumference). From each sample so obtained, the researchers separate and extract as many as 20 million adult stem cells (possibly becoming one or more tissues) and take them to the patient's heart for about 10 minutes I administered it.


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After 6 months, the group given adult stem cells extracted from fat had cardiac perfusion (cardiac ability to receive oxygen holding blood) improved 3.5%. We also found that the amount of blood delivered from the left atrium of the heart increased by 5.7% compared to the placebo group. On average, the degree of myocardial injury in the stem cell treated group dropped from 31.6 percent to 15.4 percent, about half the value. On the other hand, myocardial injury level of placebo group was the same as before administration.

From these results, we found that stem cells did not interfere with blood flow and did not cause dangerous changes to heart rate. Eric Duckers, MD, Director of Research at Erasmus University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, said, "This study shows that it is possible to obtain stem cells in a safe way and to administer them to the heart of patients with acute myocardial infarction It is suggested. "

The findings were announced at the American Heart Association's conference in Chicago. Duckers doctor already started a project called "Advance" which is a large follow-up study, and we are planning to recruit about 375 patients with myocardial infarction from facilities in Europe.

The content seems to be focused on myocardial infarction patients whose left atrium ejection fraction (the ability of the heart to pump blood) is below 45 percent. 40% of patients will receive 20 million stem cells and the same number of different groups will receive 30 million more stem cells. And plans are administered to the remaining 20% ​​group and we will conduct comparative experiment. As a result of the experiment, examination will be done in 6 months as to how the condition of the patient's heart has changed.

If the research progresses smoothly, it may come a day when the fat around the stomach, which is usually abhorred, becomes a magic bullet for patients suffering from a heart attack.