Ask the doctor: Vitamin E for the heart
There was time that doctors were recommending vitamin E, advice based largely on a clinical trial done in the mid-1990s suggesting that it might reduce the risk of heart attacks. Because there were so few heart attacks in that study, the findings should have been confirmed before being so quickly adopted. Nevertheless, the results quickly influenced medical practice.
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