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Article: B-vitamin pills don't reduce risk of death from heart disease.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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Washington, October 7 (ANI): A Cochrane Systematic Review suggests that B-vitamin supplements should not be recommended for prevention of heart disease because they do not reduce the risk of developing or dying from the disease.
"There is no evidence to support the use of B-vitamins as supplements for reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke or death associated with cardiovascular disease," says Arturo MartE[degrees]-Carvajal, of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network in Valencia, Venezuela.
"And it is important to point out that although we may have not found a positive effect, these kinds of studies are vitally important for determining the factors that ...