William Atkins
Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:25
Science -
Health
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The authors of the study are Marian L. Neuhouser, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Cynthia Thomson, Aaron Aragaki, Garnet L. Anderson, JoAnn E. Manson, Ruth E. Patterson, Thomas E. Rohan, Linda van Horn, James M. Shikany, Asha Thomas, Andrea LaCroix, and Ross L. Prentice.
The study was conducted with the help “from the
Women’s Health Initiative clinical trials” (68,132 women) that involved three
“overlapping trials of hormone therapy, dietary modification, and calcium and vitamin D supplements” or
“an observational study” (93,676 women).
Data was collected on multivitamin use at a
“baseline” time and then at
“follow-up time points” over about an eight year period, ending in 2005.
The researchers looked for incidences of
“cancers of the breast (invasive), colon/rectum, endometrium, kidney, bladder, stomach, ovary, and lung; CVD (myocardial infarction, stroke, and venous thromboembolism); and total mortality.”
Their data found:
(1) 41.5% of the women participating in the study used multivitamins.
(2) 9,619 cases of breast, colorectal, endometrial, renal, bladder, stomach, lung, or ovarian cancer were found.
(3) 8,751 cases of CVD events were found.
(4) 9,865 deaths occurred.
Of those women using multivitamins, it was found that those women were more likely to:
(1) exercise
(2) be white in ethnicity
(3) weigh less; that is, have a lower body mass index (BMI)
(4) live in the western portion of the United States
(5) be college-educated.
Page three provides conclusions from the authors of the study.
