IRON SUPPLEMENT USE SHOWS NO "CLEAR RELATION" TO FATAL HEART ATTACKS
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
IRON SUPPLEMENT USE SHOWS NO "CLEAR RELATION" TO FATAL HEART ATTACKS in a study conducted by Howard Morrison et al. and published in the March issue of Epidemiology. Conducted as part of the Nutrition Canada Survey cohort (September 1970-December 1972), the investigators analyzed data from 9,920 participants and determined that there was "no important association between either dietary iron consumption or taking iron supplements and risk of fatal acute myocardial infarction."