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Article: High dietary intake of vitamin C and vitamin E linked with reduced risk.(Alzheimer disease research)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA
- Article date:
- July 21, 2002
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2002 JUL 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Consumption of a diet that is high in vitamin C and vitamin E may lower the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD), according to an article in the June 26, 2002, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Marianne J. Engelhart, MD, MSc, Monique M.B. Breteler, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, examined the relationship between antioxidant intake from food and the development of Alzheimer disease (AD).
According to information cited in the accompanying editorial, in the United States, about 360,000 new cases of Alzheimer disease are reported each year. ...