Summary
After 8 years of treatment, the antioxidant vitamins E and C do not help prevent myocardial infarction, stroke, or cardiovascular death in low-risk men, according to findings from the Physicians' Health Study II [NCT00270647]. These findings refute the belief that long-term treatment with these antioxidant vitamins are cardioprotective, researchers reported.
- cardiology clinical trials
- prevention & screening
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