SAN ANTONIO -- Recent studies on the effects of vitamins may have many of your asking questions.
"There's so much concern and confusion out there right now, " said Pharmacist Rudy Davila, Owner of Davila's Pharmacy.
A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association, found common daily supplements appear to raise the death rate in older women. Researchers examined data from the Iowa Women's Health study. They tracked about 39,000 women over 19 years. The average age of the women in the study was 62 years old.
Brandi Ybarra, who takes a multivitamin every day said she's not concerned about the findings.
"I kinda go back to my mom and my grandma. They all took vitamins, and they seemed to come out okay, " Ybarra told us.
Tuesday afternoon, researchers gathered at the UT Heath Science Center San Antonio to discuss the impact of new cancer risk data.
"The impact of this study is profound," said Ian M. Thompson Jr,. M.D. director of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and one of the study's authors.
The results published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveal men who took vitamin E were 17-percent more likely to develop prostate cancer.
"The concept that 50-percent of adults over the age of 60 are taking vitamin E and that 23 percent are taking at least the dosage that was used for the study, suggests that many men are impacted by this study, " added Dr. Thompson.
Pharmacist Rudy Davila said do not stop taking a vitamin all together.
"If your currently taking vitamin E or A or D as a supplement, I would not just stop them," Davila suggeted. "I would check with your physician or your pharmacist first."
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