Daily bread 07/03/2024

• Decades-Long Study Shatters Myth: Multivitamins Don’t Lower Death Risk

  • A 20-year study of 400,000 U.S. adults
  • regular multivitamin use does not lower mortality risk
  • challenging the effectiveness of multivitamins in enhancing longevity
  • based on an NIH study that analyzed over two decades of dietary information from 390,124 U.S. adults.
  • has found no association between regular multivitamin use and a lower risk of death
  • the benefits and harms of regular multivitamin use remain unclear
  • studies of multivitamin use and mortality have yielded mixed results
  • limited by short follow-up times. 
  • more deeply explore
  • the relationship between long-term regular multivitamin use and overall mortality and death from cardiovascular disease and cancer
  • analyzed data from three large, geographically diverse prospective studies
  • lengthy follow-ups
  • extensive information on demographics and lifestyle factors
  • were able to mitigate the effects of possible biases
  • people who took daily multivitamins did not have a lower risk of death from any cause than people who took no multivitamins
  • results were adjusted for factors such as race and ethnicity, education, and diet quality

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