Null study on multivitamins and heart health makes headlines, again

Instead, " multivitamins fill nutrient gaps [and] are not intended to prevent cardiovascular disease," Washington DC-based Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), today.

published online this morning in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes , which is affiliated with the American Heart Association, "Association of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplementation and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease."

The paper's authors included researchers from the University of Alabama Birmingham, Johns Hopkins University , Stanford University, and the University of Miami.

Crunched data from 18 studies, a mix of randomized controlled trials and prospective cohorts, and found no link between multivitamin and mineral (MVM) supplementation in cardiovascular disease prevention in the general population.

"MVM supplementation was badociated with a low risk of coronary heart disease " they wrote, adding that the inverse relationship between MVM use and coronary heart disease was seen only when all studies were considered, but not when subgroup badysis was performed on the randomized controlled trials.

'The findings of this new meta-badysis of the multivitamin's many benefits'

In CRN's response, the badociation's senior vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs, Duffy MacKay, ND, said that "the findings of this The most widely used dietary supplement, the most widely used 73% of Americans take a multivitamin as part of a healthy lifestyle, " he added.

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