Tablet-shaped vitamins represent pieces of the pharmaceutical industry that earn billions of dollars a year, and most of them are consumed in middle and upper age people.
However, some combinations of vitamins that millions of people drink can increase the risk of stroke and heart disease, the results of a new American investigation.
The danger is mainly related to the combination of calcium and vitamin D, which increases the possibility of arteriosclerosis, or when the accumulation of fatty substances, cholesterol, dead cells and calcium parts in the inner wall of the artery.
US researchers, led by Professor Safi Hahn of the West Virginia Medical School, published the study in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal, with more than 277 people suffering from atherosclerosis and, at the same time, They ate this combination of vitamins.
It was found that consuming a combination of vitamin D and calcium up to 17 percent increased the likelihood of stroke.
The study showed that there is no relationship between heart disease and vitamin A, B, C and D, beta-carotene, calcium, iron, antioxidants and multivitamins. Only fatty acids with folic and omega-3 fatty acids have hardly had an impact on heart work.
What is even more interesting is that faculty physicians have advised that vitamins in the form of dietary supplements do not buy.
"People who buy these vitamins to improve heart function only send their money," Dr. Han concluded.
