New Study Links Vitamins to Increased Death in Women
Oct. 11, 2011
In its more than 20 years of studying women's health, the Iowa Women's Health Study today revealed that taking daily vitamins and minerals (multivitamins) may in fact be harmful.
Published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study "assessed the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in relation to total mortality in 38,772 older women in the Iowa Women's Health Study." The research found that not only does the consumption of multivitamins by women older than 55 not stave off death, it could slightly enhance health risk. The study says that multivitamins, as well as specific supplements of vitamin B6, folic acid, iron (in which the association was the strongest), magnesium, zinc and copper "were associated with increased risk of total mortality when compared with corresponding nonuse." The use of clacium, however, was found to be "inversely related."
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