Vitamin E Hysteria
A poorly designed but highly publicized study in the Annals of Internal Medicine has panicked the public and angered scientists. Listed below are just some of the responses from the scientific community.
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In the total of studies, the group of patients taking vitamin E of 400 IU was actually just slightly more likely to be living after 5 years. And those people taking the AREDS formulation actually had a 12% reduction in 5-year mortality risk.
"... they also selected not to employ a vast number of studies that show no harm from vitamin E and a great deal of benefit."
Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, Tufts University, Human Nutrition Research on Aging

