Vitamin E fights VTE risk in women

By Lynda Williams

18 September 2007

Circulation 2007; 116: Advance online publication

MedWire News: Vitamin E supplements significantly reduce the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) by up to almost 50%, results from the Women's Health Study (WHS) demonstrate.

"Given its lack of efficacy for prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer, vitamin E may be most appropriate for people at high risk of VTE," Robert Glynn (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and team say.

As vitamin E is thought to inhibit vitamin K and vitamin K-dependent clotting factors, the researchers examined WHS findings to determine whether the vitamin alters the risk for VTE.

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The Solution To Vitamin E Failure

Vitamin E has failed to prevent heart attacks because dosages taken were far too low, according to a new study from Vanderbilt University, but the solution is not as simple as taking larger amounts of the vitamin. According to the study, published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, the extremely high dosages of vitamin E required to produce significant benefits may not be safe. However, MeridiumXN™, a novel dietary supplement from BioNovix, offers a solution to this dilemma.

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