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Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Clinical trial on healthy women validates vitamin E benefits and safety
August 4th, 2005
The Women's Health Study (WHS), the largest, long-term, randomized vitamin E trial ever conducted, revealed vitamin E significantly reduced the risk of death from major cardiovascular events (e.g., heart attack or stroke) by 24%. A 10-year study of nearly 40,000 healthy women, WHS also showed that for women age 65+, vitamin E's effect was even greater: a 49% decrease in the risk of cardiovascular death and a 34% reduction in heart attacks. The findings were published in the July 6 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). "For women over age 65 at the study's start, the group with the highest risk, the researchers...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-08-04)
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