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Article: Vitamin E & Alzheimer's.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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High doses of vitamin E slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, says a study from Columbia University and elsewhere.
For two years, Mary Sano and other members of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study gave 341 patients with moderately severe Alzheimer's one of the following:
* 1,000 IU of dl-alpha-tocopherol (synthetic vitamin E) twice a day,
* 10 mg a day of the drug selegiline, which is used to treat people with Parkinson's disease,
* both, or
* a (inactive but lookalike) placebo.
Then they kept track of how long it took for the patients to reach one of four "outcomes": death, institutionalization, severe ...