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Article: Vitamins don't aid heart health: new studies find few benefits from vitamins C, E, and beta carotene, and none from B vitamins and folic acid.(CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Advisor
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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If you've been taking vitamin supplements in hopes of preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD), save your money. Two major randomized clinical trials of vitamins conducted among thousands of women have found few, if any, benefits from taking antioxidants except among high-risk women, and no benefits at all for B vitamins. It had been thought that antioxidants might stave off damage caused by harmful molecules called free radicals, and that B vitamins might lower harmfully high levels of the protein homocysteine, both of which can damage blood vessels.
The Women's Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study (WACS) involved more than 8,000 female health professionals over age ...