Vitamin E supplements fail to reduce coronary deaths for women in NEJM study.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
VITAMIN E SUPPLEMENTS NOT SHOWN TO REDUCE CORONARY HEART DISEASE MORTALITY in postmenopausal women in a study published in the May 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. However, dietary intake of vitamin E was associated with reduced risk of death from coronary heart disease in the women, according to Lawrence Kushi, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and researchers from the University of Miami, University of Pittsburgh and Wake Forest University.
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