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...fact, according to a study presented at a conference last Friday by Dr. J. Michael Gaziano, instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, small amounts of any type of alcohol may reduce the risk of heart disease...
...though, doctors aren't advising theirpatients to eat carrots until their stomach turnsand their skin becomes yellow. The study wasconducted on a sick population, Gaziano says, andbeta carotene's effects on healthy subjectsremains untested...
...message down at Dallas was primarily toresearchers," says Gaziano. "We're not at thestage where we can make recommendations...to thepublic...
...release more information about betacarotene, [the subjects] might start taking it,"and thus bias the study, Gaziano says. So on theadvice of the study's overseeing board, Hennekens,Gaziano and others will see no more data from thestudy until its completion, at least five yearsaway...
Hennekens, Gaziano and their colleagues canonly guess and dream about the outcome of theirstudy. They have decided to conduct the trialunder a "double-blind" standard, which means thatnot only are the subjects unaware of whether theyare taking placebos or the real thing, but so arethe investigators...