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Earlier observational research—based on food intake and over-the-counter supplements—had suggested that antioxidant vitamins might have cardiovascular benefits for women, according to JoAnn E. Manson ’75, the lead researcher and a professor of medicine...
...study, over 8,000 women at high risk of heart disease were randomly assigned different combinations of vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta carotene for over nine years—the first large-scale randomized clinical trial of these vitamins, Manson said...
Vitamins lower blood serum levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease. However, Manson said that this relationship could be “due to confounding by other factors that are true risk factors...
...Manson, who is also chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, added that some subgroups of women did show benefits from taking vitamin C and vitamin E. Women who had three or more risk factors had a 42 percent lower risk of stroke, and smokers also appeared to have a reduced risk of stroke...
...Manson said that these subgroup findings are “intriguing and warrant further study, but we’re cautioning that they could be due to chance...