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Article: Survival longer in Alzheimer's patients who took vitamin E.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- May 15, 2008
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CHICAGO -- Vitamin E supplementation at doses of 2,000 IU/day appeared to be associated with improved survival in a retrospective case analysis of patients who had Alzheimer's disease.
The results, which were presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, were seen in a retrospective case analysis of 847 patients seen between 1990 and 2004 at the Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston. The results do not indicate that high-dose vitamin E was associated with an increased risk of death in Alzheimer's patients, as has been seen in large studies of vitamin E for prevention of cardiovascular ...