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Article: Antioxidant vitamins can be friend or foe for older women with diabetes.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- April 16, 2004
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2004 APR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A simple blood test could determine whether older women with diabetes would benefit from, or be harmed by, vitamin doses designed to protect their ailing hearts, according to researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
The test screens for genetic variations in a blood protein called haptoglobin. Diabetic, postmenopausal women who carry two copies of the variation known as haptoglobin-2 increase their risk of atherosclerosis, or narrowed arteries, if they take doses of the antioxidant vitamins C and E, reported Andrew P. Levy, MD, and colleagues in the April 2004 issue of Diabetes Care.
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