ANTIOXIDANT VITAMIN CLAIMS MAY BE "EXAGGERATED" GIVEN FINNISH TRIAL
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
ANTIOXIDANT VITAMIN CLAIMS MAY BE "EXAGGERATED" GIVEN FINNISH TRIAL results, Charles Hennekens, MD, and Julie Buring, ScD, both of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Richard Peto, University of Oxford Imperial Cancer Research Fund Unit, caution in an editorial in the April 14 New England Journal of Medicine. The authors suggested that the findings from the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta Carotene Cancer Prevention Study "provide timely support for skepticism and for a moratorium on unsubstantiated health claims."