Vitamin E Doesn't Lower Women's Risk for Heart Disease, Stroke, or Cancer

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According to some newly published results from the "Women's Health Study," Vitamin E supplements do not protect healthy women against cardiovascular disease, strokes, or cancer. This news comes after a 12-year study of nearly 40,000 women aged 45 or older. In recent years, there's been a great deal of scientific interest in the potential of antioxidants like Vitamin E to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. But, the study--funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Cancer Institute--showed no significant statistical differences in the rate of non-fatal heart attacks and strokes, or in deaths from all causes, between the group taking the vitamin supplement and the group taking a placebo. Captain Eleanor Schron --deputy group leader in the NHLBI's Clinical Trials Scientific Research Group, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications--says that women taking Vitamin E in the hopes of avoiding specific diseases should consider other approaches...

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"This study indicates that, for cardiovascular-disease prevention, women should instead focus on healthy lifestyle behaviors: eat a healthy diet to prevent high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol; be physically active; lose weight, if overweight; and, if you smoke, quit!"

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Captain Schron encouraged women to learn more about proven methods of preventing heart disease--the number-one killer of women--by logging onto http://www.hearttruth.gov. The results of the study were published in the July 6th issue of the "Journal of the American Medical Association."

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