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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:47 am |
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From AP:
"The new study, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical
Association, was led by the Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group at Copenhagen
University Hospital in Denmark. The Cochrane organization is a respected
international network of experts that does systematic reviews of scientific
evidence on health interventions.
For the new report on antioxidants, the researchers first analyzed 68
studies involving 232,606 people and found no significant effect on
mortality — neither good nor bad — linked to taking antioxidants.
When they eliminated the lower-quality studies and looked only at the most
trustworthy ones, they actually found a higher risk of death for people
taking vitamins: 4 percent for those taking vitamin E, 7 percent for beta
arotene and 16 percent for vitamin A."
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/297/8/842 |
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