Save With Supplements

HERE'S ANOTHER REASON to take your vitamins: It could save the nation hundreds of millions of dollars in health care costs each year. Researchers found that taking 400 to 800 IU of vitamin E every day could save an average of $578 per patient in the United States by protecting users from nonfatal heart attacks. Multiplying the savings of $578 by 750,000 (the number of nonfatal heart attacks estimated each year by the American Heart Association) translates into a potential savings of approximately $430 million a year.

This research, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, calculated these financial savings using data from the 1996 Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study (CHAOS). In the CHAOS trial--a double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 2,002 patients--vitamin E was found to reduce the risk of nonfatal heart attacks by 77 percent.

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