{"id":32359,"date":"2012-10-18T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32359"},"modified":"2012-10-18T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:18:04","slug":"multivitamins-may-confer-a-small-but-significant-cancer-risk-reduction-in-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/10\/18\/multivitamins-may-confer-a-small-but-significant-cancer-risk-reduction-in-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Multivitamins May Confer a Small, but Significant, Cancer Risk Reduction in Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle-aged and older men who take multivitamins have a modestly reduced risk for cancer, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1380451\">an industry-supported study in <em>JAMA<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 15,000 male U.S. physicians aged 50 and older were randomized to a daily multivitamin or placebo and then followed for roughly 11 years. Multivitamin recipients had a small but significant reduction in total cancer diagnoses (17.0 vs. 18.3 cancers per 1000 person-years). There were, however, no reductions in site-specific cancers \u2014 including prostate cancer, the most frequently diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p>The authors conclude: &#8220;Although the main reason to take multivitamins is to prevent nutritional deficiency, these data provide support for the potential use of multivitamin supplements in the prevention of cancer in middle-aged and older men.&#8221; <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted with permission from<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/firstwatch.jwatch.org\/\">Physician&#8217;s First Watch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle-aged and older men who take multivitamins have a modestly reduced risk for cancer, according to an industry-supported study in JAMA. Nearly 15,000 male U.S. physicians aged 50 and older were randomized to a daily multivitamin or placebo and then followed for roughly 11 years. Multivitamin recipients had a small but significant reduction in total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1520,1519],"class_list":["post-32359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prevention","tag-cancer-risk","tag-multivitamins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}