VITAMIN E MAY REDUCE RISK OF HEART DISEASE

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, January 14, 1992                   TAG: 9201140210
SECTION: NATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: GALVESTON, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Short
VITAMIN E MAY REDUCE RISK OF HEART DISEASE
Large doses of vitamin E can block chemical changes that lead to artery blockages, suggesting that vitamin E may cut heart disease risk, doctors say.
In previous studies, Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center had shown that vitamin E, vitamin C and beta carotene could block the disease-related chemical changes in test tubes.
The new study showed that vitamin E could block the changes in the bloodstreams of 12 men who were given 800 units of the vitamin per day for three months.
"Most of us in medicine have poo-pooed megadoses of vitamins," said heart association president Dr. W. Virgil Brown of Emory University in Atlanta. But the work "has a good ring to it," Brown said.
"But it's still early," Brown said. "I don't think anyone wants to say that if you took a certain amount of these vitamins you'd reduce heart disease."
- Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB