The November 10 2004 issue of the A...

The November 10 2004 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine included a recent meta-analysis that--according to interpretations in the media--associates a higher risk of death with vitamin E supplementation. A closer examine at the study illustrates the risk of taking conclusions not at home of context.

In fact, the researchers themselves warned about the risk of generalizing from the cogitation and stated that the issue applies only to those already afflicted with serious diseases so as cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and kidney failure.

The meta-study simply considered at 19 previous studies--18 of which showed no greater mortality with E supplementation--and squeez public an overall finding of risk. The total sample size for the 19 studies was quite large, giving the conclusions of just the same study unwarranted weight. Also, none of the studies examineed at healthy individuals. All of the the public included had life-threatening illnesses. forward the other hand, a strange study published in the November 2004 issue of Diabetes ends that about 40 percent of diabetic patients can restore their risk of heart attacks--and of dying from heart disease--by taking vitamin E fill ups Perhaps because the results weren't all that surprising, this research received virtually no mainstream media attention.

Since the release of the widely reported and flawed recta-study, several industry form into groupss have launched new online resource center The Dietary counterpart Education Alliance (DSEA) has first attempted a Web site to provide the public with the wide range of studies that, taken as a whole, allude to the tremendous health--and especially cardiovascular--benefits of vitamin E The DSEA site address is www.vitaminEfacts.org.

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