CardioExchange Archive

February 24th, 2014

Vitamin Supplements Come Up Short Once Again

Larry Husten, PHD

Once again, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has concluded that there is no good evidence to support the routine use of multivitamins or most individual or combination vitamins by healthy adults to prevent cardiovascular disease or cancer. The USPSTF also recommended against the use of two specific vitamins — beta-carotene and vitamin E. Beta-carotene has been […]

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December 16th, 2013

Case Closed: Multivitamins Should Not be Used

Larry Husten, PHD

The editorialists are fed up: “Enough is enough.” Writing about three new papers in the Annals of Internal Medicine that find no benefits for the use of multivitamins — only the latest in a long line of negative findings — Eliseo Guallar and colleagues write: …we believe that the case is closed — supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults […]

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November 19th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: November 19th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include multivitamins and cancer prevention in men, a comparison of atorvastatin with or without a PCSK9 Antibody in primary hypercholesterolemia, type-2 diabetes screening and population mortality over 10 years, and more.

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November 12th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: November 12th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include multivitamins for the prevention of CVD in men, the TRILOGY ACS trial, statin use and reduced cancer mortality, and more.

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October 18th, 2012

Multivitamins May Confer a Small, but Significant, Cancer Risk Reduction in Men

Nicholas Downing, MD

Middle-aged and older men who take multivitamins have a modestly reduced risk for cancer, according to an industry-supported study in JAMA. Nearly 15,000 male U.S. physicians aged 50 and older were randomized to a daily multivitamin or placebo and then followed for roughly 11 years. Multivitamin recipients had a small but significant reduction in total cancer […]

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