Multivitamins Don’t Prevent Heart Disease

The good news is that multivitamins are good for something: One recent study concluded that they cut the risk of cancer by eight percent. The bad news is they do nothing to stave off heart disease. A Brigham and Women’s Hospital news release reports that researchers at the Harvard-affiliated hospital enrolled nearly 15,000 men over the age of 50 in the study, and randomly assigned them to take either a multivitamin or a placebo each day. After ten years, the researchers found, the group that took the placebo showed no significant impact on risk of heart attack, stroke, or cardiovascular mortality. Read more from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.