No protective effect on cancer from long-term vitamin E or vitamin C supplementation
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 10:56
in Health & Medicine
The Physicians' Health Study II is a large-scale, long-term, randomised clinical trial that included 14,641 physicians who were at least 50 years old at enrolment. These physicians were given 400 IU of vitamin E every other day or its placebo, or 500 mg of vitamin C daily or its placebo...
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