Article: Vitamin E and cardiovascular disease: a genetic factor.(Editorials)(Editorial)

Eversince Dr. Wilfrid Shute claimed more than 50 years ago that vitamin E was beneficial for cardiovascular disease, this vitamin has been the subject of a great deal of controversy. For a long time, conventional doctors disparagingly referred to vitamin E as "the vitamin in search of a disease." Then, in the 1990s, several large epidemiological studies showed that high intake of vitamin E was associated with a substantial decrease in the risk of coronary heart disease. Around the same time, a randomized controlled trial (the Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study) showed that supplementation with 400-800 IU/day of vitamin E resulted in a 77% reduction in the incidence of ...

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