After patients were attacked by the heart disease,the oxygen therapy has become a common means of treatment in the world. But the British and Spanish researchers in the latest article of systematic reviews in the evidence-based clinical evidence database - "Cochrane Library", said there is no sufficient evidence to prove the reasonableness of this approach,and this treatment may be more harmful than beneficial.

Researchers from Oxford University, Birmingham University and other institutions constituted a research team to perform the randomized controlled trial to 387 patients with heart disease; within 24 hours after these patients' heart attacks, pure oxygen or air entered them, the oxygen content they inhaled was 3 times than the amount of inhaled air. The result among these 387 patients, there were 14 people who died incurably. The researchers found that only three tests could provide clear evidence to prove the oxygen therapy was reasonable.

Before making further study, the oxygen therapy to patients with heart disease can not be excluded to increase the possibilty of the death risk. At the same time researchers have acknowledged that, due to the limited sample studied currently, this observation result was not statistically significant, perhaps the discovery result was only accidental.

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