Health Study: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Is Unclear

By Health News For Today.

Today's Health News.- Just like must things lately in the health market, looks like previews reports about cardiovascular disease prevention weren't completely right, which puts this disease in the list of unclear cures. New health study reveals that taking vitamin E and C supplements that suppose to help prevent the disease may not have the effects that previews studies said it would.

This time the study will be publish by the America Heart Association's Scientific Session on November 12, 2008.

The good news is that vitamin E and C supplements can still help prevent cardiovascular events in people but it doesn't have the maximum effect that was previously announced by the first health research report, for anyone to have better results you need to take larger amounts of the supplements, off course under Doctor supervision.

The bad news is that health in recession times can be a little difficult for many consumers and as we all know vitamins aren't cheap. Is hard enough to make money to paid for health insurance that sometimes don't leave you enough money for vitamins or medicine.

Here is what Andrew Shao, Ph.D., the vice-president of scientific and regulatory affairs of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN):

"Me and my team question the researchers for undertaking this important prevention trial which sought to confirm positive results demonstrated by earlier observational trials on these antioxidant vitamins. Although the results did not demonstrate an overall benefit, the results also do not discount the earlier epidemiological data showing that people with high intakes of vitamins E and C can lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. Nutrition research is extremely complex, and doesn't always provide clear cut answers. This study raises an interesting set of scientific challenges as to why the benefits found in observational studies have not been confirmed in this kind of trial.
From a consumer's point of view, it can be frustrating to have more questions than answers, but for scientists, this can be intriguing. The truth is, we don't have conclusive scientific evidence in the form of randomized, controlled trials that demonstrate exactly how to prevent cardiovascular disease. We do know there are some well-known practical approaches -- like not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, consuming a diet with a variety of foods, regular exercise, seeing your physician, and responsible use of vitamin supplements. Consumers should not take vitamins expecting that vitamins alone will prevent cardiovascular disease, but they should continue to take vitamins for the general health benefits they provide."

Source: MarketWatch.


Hopefully they did better this time around to come out with reliable information about how people can really prevent the disease and if taking vitamin E and C is the best way to do it.

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