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Vitamin E's lack of heart benefit linked to dosage
Date:8/22/2007
Nashville (Tenn.) - The reported failure of vitamin E to prevent heart attacks may be due to underdosing, according to a new study by investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The findings, published early online in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, suggest that these earlier studies all had a fundamental flaw the doses used werent high enough to have a significant antioxidant effect. In fact, no studies have ever conclusively demonstrated the dose at which vitamin E can be considered an antioxidant drug, the researchers report.
Oxidant injury, or oxidative stress, occurs when highly reactive molecules called free radicals attack and damage cellular proteins, lipids (fats) and DNA. Free radicals, which are byproducts of normal metabolism, are produced in excess in certain disease states, including heart disease.
Epidemiological data and animal studies suggested that antioxidant compounds like vitamin E, vitamin C and beta-carotene might offer some protection against heart attack in individuals at risk.
But subsequent controlled clinical trials of vitamin E which showed little to no benefit from the vitamin stymied that hope.
Multiple human trials looking at the effect of vitamin E supplementation on coronary events and atherosclerosis have all failed, said Jack Roberts, M.D., the T. Edwin Rogers Professor of Pharmacology, professor of Medicine, and lead author on the study.
Were talking about trials that examined quite high doses, added Jason Morrow, M.D., F. Tremaine Billings Professor of Medicine & Pharmacology and chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology. Short of a couple of studies, there was no benefit in terms of prevention of cardiovascular events and deaths.
These results caused many to discount vitamin E supplementation as a cardioprotective treatment, but Morrow and Roberts suspected that the studies had been poorly designed. All of the trials simply gave a
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| Contact: Craig Boerner craig.boerner@vanderbilt.edu 615-322-4747 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Source:Eurekalert |
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