Health and Fitness

Older Americans Are Hooked On Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work

Vitamins
(Lydia Zuraw/KHN)

CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2018

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By: Liz Szabo

When she was a young physician, Dr. Martha Gulati noticed that many of her mentors were prescribing vitamin E and folic acid to patients. Preliminary studies in the early 1990s had linked both supplements to a lower risk of heart disease.

She urged her father to pop the pills as well: “Dad, you should be on these vitamins, because every cardiologist is taking them or putting their…

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