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Article: E saves hearts ... maybe. (vitamin E may reduce the risks of non-fatal heart attacks for people with heart disease)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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High doses of vitamin E dramatically cut the risk of non-fatal heart attacks in people who already have heart disease, says a new clinical trial from Cambridge University in England. But the vitamin-E-takers were no less--and might have been even more--likely to die of heart disease.
Nigel Stephens and co-workers gave either vitamin E or a (lookalike but inactive) placebo to 2,002 men and women whose clogged arteries had shown up on X-rays (angiograms). Half the vitamin-E-takers got 800 IU a day. The remainder got 400 IU a day after the researchers decided that the lower dose was sufficient.
After a year and a half, the E-takers had a 77 percent lower risk of ...