Medical News Summary: Diabetics may benefit from Vitamin E supplements

About: Diabetics may benefit from Vitamin E supplements
Date: 21 November 2004
Source: Health India
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Health India): Researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology claim that vitamin E supplements can help diabetics who have a form of blood protein called haptoglobin. The presence of haptoglobin increases the risk of developing heart disease by up to 500%. Vitamin E can reduce the risk of heart attack by 43% and the risk of death from heart attack by 55% in at risk diabetics. Roughly 40% of diabetics have the detrimental form of haptoglobin.
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Related Disease Topics: Heart attack, Heart disease, Diabetes

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