The Power of Multivitamins Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease Death

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has encouraging news for those that have been taking multivitamins, and maybe some motivation for those that have been considering taking them. They recently completed a study that showed evidence that those that take multivitamins regularly for long periods of time may decrease their risk of dying from heart disease by 16 percent. In fact, daily supplements of vitamin E taken over a 10-year time frame are believed to reduce the risk of death from heart disease by 28 percent according to the study which was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

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Previous Studies Rebutted

The new research is a serious rebut to the previous 2004 report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. That report showed that multivitamins, and specifically vitamin E, actually inflated the risk of “all-cause mortality.” The new report was also a blow to another more recently published research study. The study published in 2007 in the Journal of American Medical Association alleged that vitamin A, vitamin E, and beta-carotene could raise the risk of death by 16 percent.

Neither of these two past reports lined up with the new conclusions that the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center reported. The new Washington study had much more favorable results for these supplements. Their research results showed the following:

  • Multivitamins did not lower the risk of causes of death other than heart disease.
  • Vitamin E and multivitamins were not associated to a rise in cancer deaths.
  • Vitamin E and C slightly decreased the risk of overall death.

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November 18, 2009