Antioxidant vitamins and coronary heart disease risk : a pooled analysis of 9 cohorts.
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Knekt, Paul
Ritz, John
Pereira, Mark A.
O'Reilly, Eilis J.
Augustsson, Katarina
Fraser, Gary E.
Goldbourt, Uri
Heitmann, Berit L.
Hallmans, Göran
Liu, Simin
Pietinen, Pirjo
Spiegelman, Donna
Stevens, June
Virtamo, Jarmo
Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600
Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600
Ascherio, Alberto
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Knekt, Paul, John Ritz, Mark A Pereira, Eilis J O'Reilly, et al. 2004. Antioxidant vitamins and coronary heart disease risk: a pooled analysis of 9 cohorts. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 80, no 6: 1508-20Abstract
Background: Epidemiologic studies have suggested a lower risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) at higher intakes of fruit, vegetables, and whole grain. Whether this association is due to antioxidant vitamins or some other factors remains unclear. Objective: We studied the relation between the intake of antioxidant vitamins and CHD risk. Design: A cohort study pooling 9 prospective studies that included information on intakes of vitamin E, carotenoids, and vitamin C and that met specific criteria was carried out. During a 10-y follow-up, 4647 major incident CHD events occurred in 293 172 subjects who were free of CHD at baseline. Results: Dietary intake of antioxidant vitamins was only weakly related to a reduced CHD risk after adjustment for potential nondietary and dietary confounding factors. Compared with subjects in the lowest dietary intake quintiles for vitamins E and C, those in the highest intake quintiles had relative risks of CHD incidence of 0.84 (95% CI: 0.71, 1.00; P = 0.17) and 1.23 (1.04, 1.45; P = 0.07), respectively, and the relative risks for subjects in the highest intake quintiles for the various carotenoids varied from 0.90 to 0.99. Subjects with higher supplemental vitamin C intake had a lower CHD incidence. Compared with subjects who did not take supplemental vitamin C, those who took >700 mg supplemental vitamin C/d had a relative risk of CHD incidence of 0.75 (0.60, 0.93; P for trend < 0.001). Supplemental vitamin E intake was not significantly related to reduced CHD risk. Conclusions: The results suggest a reduced incidence of major CHD events at high supplemental vitamin C intakes. The risk reductions at high vitamin E or carotenoid intakes appear small.Citable link to this page
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