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Vitamin E Questioned in Heart Disease Prevention Role

  • August 22, 2003

Harvard University researchers turned to the Physicians' Health Study, which began in 1982 and followed participants for up to 13 years to find out if vitamin E and carotenoids protected against heart disease. The researchers compared the levels of carotenoids and tocopherols in the blood of over 500 men who later had a heart attack with those of a control group of similar men who did not have a heart attack. Blood levels of five major carotenoids were measured, as well as levels of...