Older Americans are hooked on vitamins despite scarce evidence they work
April 6, 2018 by Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News
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 patients on (them)," recalled Gulati, now chief of cardiology for the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.
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