Go a back a few years, when Vioxx was killing tens of thousands amid Big Pharma's denials.
it was dismissed by the authors as an anomaly (which makes you wonder why they didn't just dismiss the entire study as an anomaly.] - That is funny!
Well, just when you think we're done with Vitamin E, another study appears attacking the poor vitamin isolate. This study ran 10 years and was designed to evaluate the benefit of low dose aspirin and/or Vitamin E on cardiovascular disease. To read the press reports on the study, you'd think it was the final nail in Vitamin E's coffin.
And finally, most interesting of all, as reported by John Fauber in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Women in the study who took 600 international units of vitamin E every other day saw no statistically significant reduction in heart attacks or strokes. But when researchers looked at all heart-related deaths, which included sudden cardiac death, they found a 24 percent reduction." [Isn't it curious that fact did not seem to make it into any other press release on the study. Actually, it was dismissed by the authors as an anomaly (which makes you wonder why they didn't just dismiss the entire study as an anomaly.] |
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