CODEX / Vitamin E
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Don't forget many people take synthetic vitamin E which wiuld also skew the results of any meta analysis.
More junk science.
And what about those cardiologists who take E while telling their patients not to .
At 04:21 PM 11/10/2004, you wrote:
AS PREDICTED: CARDIOLOGISTS BLAST VITAMIN E SUPPLEMENTS IN REPORT RELEASED WITHIN DAYS OF NOTIFICATION THAT CODEX INTENDS TO LIMIT HIGH-DOSE VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS
Within days of the international regulatory body called CODEX notifying the world that it intends to establish a worldwide maximum dosage limit on vitamin supplements, headlines news stories warned that high-dose vitamin E supplements "increase the risk of dying." [Washington Post Nov. 10, 2004] The report, emanating from a meeting of cardiologists at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans, falsely claims high-dose vitamin E (400 IU or more) may increase the risk of death by 5 percent. This false conclusion was made after analysis of 19 studies involving 136,000 people (to be published in the January 4, 2005 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine).
The 5 percent figure is a relative increase, not a hard number (not a 5 out of 100 increase). High-dose vitamin E does not significantly increase, nor does it decrease, mortality rates. Furthermore, people with cardiovascular disease are more likely to be taking vitamin E supplements, which skews the statistics. A University of North Carolina study of 45,748 participants, aged 50 to 75 years, found that supplement use is higher among people who are battling chronic health conditions and the strongest association was for cardiovascular disease with supplemental vitamin E. [Am Journal Preventive Medicine 24:43-51, 2003]
Copyright 2004 Bill Sardi
