Multivitamins Do Not Reduce Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality and Should Not Be Taken for This Purpose: How Do We Know That?

Alyson Haslam¹, Vinay Prasad^{2

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¹ Knight Cancer Institute (A.H.).
² Division of Hematology Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute (V.P.) prasad@ohsu.edu.
³ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (V.P.).
⁴ Center for Health Care Ethics (V.P.).
⁵ Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine (V.P.), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.

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Alyson Haslam et al. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2018 Jul.

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. 2018 Jul;11(7):e004886.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.004886.

Alyson Haslam¹, Vinay Prasad^{2

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¹ Knight Cancer Institute (A.H.).
² Division of Hematology Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute (V.P.) prasad@ohsu.edu.
³ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (V.P.).
⁴ Center for Health Care Ethics (V.P.).
⁵ Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine (V.P.), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.

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Keywords: Editorials; diet; fruit; incidence; vegetable; vitamin.

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Association of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplementation and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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