Uncontrolled Intake Of Vitamin E Is An Increased Risk Of Hemorrhagic Stroke

Uncontrolled Intake Of Vitamin E Is An Increased Risk Of Hemorrhagic Stroke.
People who submit to vitamin E supplements may be putting themselves at a disregard increased gamble for a hemorrhagic stroke, researchers report. Some studies have suggested that taking vitamin E can screen against heart disease, while others have found that, in high doses, it might increase the hazard of death. In the United States, an estimated 13 percent of the population takes vitamin E supplements, the researchers said.

And "Vitamin E supplementation is not as crypt as we may like to believe," said come researcher Dr Markus Schurks, who's with the division of preventive c physic at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "Specifically, it appears to carry an increased risk for hemorrhagic stroke. While the jeopardize is low translating into one additional hemorrhage per 1250 persons taking vitamin E, widespread and of control use of vitamin E should be cautioned against".

The report is published in the Nov 5, 2010 online printing of the BMJ. For the study, Schurks and his colleagues did a meta-analysis, which is a notice of published studies, that looked at vitamin E and the risk for stroke. There are basically two types of stroke: one where blood proceed to the brain is blocked, called an ischemic stroke, and one where vessels fracture and bleed into the brain, called a hemorrhagic stroke. Of the two, hemorrhagic strokes are more rare, but more serious, the researchers noted.

The study team looked at nine trials that included 118756 patients. Although none of the trials found an overall danger for stroke associated with vitamin E, there was a incongruity in the risk of the type of stroke.

The researchers found there were 223 hemorrhagic strokes surrounded by the 50334 people taking vitamin E, compared with 183 hemorrhagic strokes among the 50,414 proletariat taking a placebo. That's a 22 percent increase in hemorrhagic stroke risk middle vitamin E users, Schurks's group noted.

However, for the risk of ischemic stroke, vitamin E was in fact mildly protective, reducing the risk of ischemic stroke 10 percent, the researchers found. Schurks said the unlimited risk of having a hemorrhagic stroke linked to vitamin E is wee - one additional hemorrhagic stroke for every 1250 people taking the supplement.

Vitamin E may nip in the bud one ischemic stroke in 476 people taking the supplement, the researchers added. The researchers stressed that other ways of reducing the chance of strokes - such as lowering blood pressure, taking cholesterol-lowering drugs and living a hale lifestyle - have much more impact on preventing ischemic apoplectic fit than vitamin E.

Dr Larry B Goldstein, director of the Duke University Stroke Center, said that "in ell to the studies included in this analysis, a large randomized trial of a mix of antioxidant vitamins, including vitamin E, in patients with vascular disease or diabetes found no intent on vascular events, including stroke, despite a significant increase in blood levels of the vitamins". There's also some text suggesting that antioxidant vitamins might interfere with the effects of statin medications used to mark down cholesterol levels in patients with vascular disease alcohol. "As there is no evidence of benefit and at least the odds of harm, these vitamin supplements should generally be avoided, or at least their use should be discussed with a physician if being taken for a restricted medical condition".