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LOS ANGELES - Swallowing
a daily multivitamin can reduce the risk of cancer by at least eight percent in
middle-aged and older men and appears to have no dangerous side-effects,
according to the first large-scale, randomized study on the subject.
The protective effect of
the daily pill was described as "modest" by the trial investigators
who emphasized that the primary use of vitamins was to prevent nutritional
deficiencies.
About half of US adults
take at least one daily dietary supplement–the most popular being a multivitamin,
according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The US Physicians Health
Study II included nearly 50,000 male doctors aged 50 and older and spanned more
than 10 years. Participants were randomly assigned to a multivitamin—Pfizer Inc's
Centrum Silver—or a placebo.
Excluding prostate
cancer, researchers found about a 12 percent reduction in overall cancer
occurrence and said the protective effect seemed to be greater in people who
had previously battled cancer.
They also saw a 12
percent reduction in the risk of death from cancer, although those findings
also were not statistically significant.30
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