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Seriously NOW - wtf? - High dose of Vitamin E. increases death
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"Study: High dose of Vitamin E increases death risk
By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY
NEW ORLEANS — High-dose vitamin E supplements taken daily can increase a person's risk of premature death, researchers said Wednesday.
People who take daily doses of 400 international units or higher are about 10% more likely to die of a variety of causes than people who take smaller doses or no vitamin E, according to an analysis of 14 studies conducted between 1993 and 2004.
Many of the studies did not specify causes of death, but researchers believe patients died of all the usual causes, including heart disease and cancer.
As many as 40% of people in the USA take vitamin supplements. Twenty-five percent take vitamin E; of those people, about two-thirds take doses that may be dangerous, says the study's lead researcher, Edgar Miller of Johns Hopkins University.
"People take it based on wishful thinking as much as anything else. But we should see if they're beneficial or not," he says.
His study appears in Thursday's Annals of Internal Medicine and was reported simultaneously at a meeting of the American Heart Association here.
Previous research on vitamin E has been mixed, with some studies suggesting that vitamin E may be beneficial for people with specific illnesses. One study suggested the vitamin may help prevent a second heart attack while another indicated that vitamin E offered some benefit to patients with end-stage kidney disease.
Later studies began to suggest that vitamin E may raise death rates. As those trials began rolling in, doctors began changing their prescribing habits, Miller says.
This isn't the first study to suggest a nutrient may be harmful. Two major studies of beta carotene in cancer patients in the mid-'90s found that the nutrient increased cancer risk and deaths from all causes.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition, a supplement trade group, immediately released a rebuttal. Because many of the studies were done in people who were ill, "the (generality) of the findings to healthy adults is uncertain," said John Hathcock, vice president of scientific and international affairs."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health...n-e-risks_x.htm
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