Lee Swanson Research Update

Multivitamins May be a Defense Against Heart Attack

November 2004

Low-dose multivitamins may help prevent myocardial infarction (heart attack) according to an epidemiological study out of the Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.

Researchers examined the association between self-administered multivitamins and heart attack in subjects aged 45 to 70 living in Sweden. The study included 1,296 cases involving a first nonfatal myocardial infarction and 1,685 controls matched for age, sex and other factors.

Among control subjects, 57% of the women and 35% of the men used dietary supplements, while 42 % of women and 27% of men who had had heart attacks used multivitamins. Of those taking dietary supplements, 80% used multivitamin preparations.

Researchers concluded, "findings from this study indicate that use of low-dose multivitamin supplements may aid in the primary prevention of myocardial infarction."

Journal of Nutrition 133(8):2650-4, 2003

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