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Intake of Vitamin E Rich Diet Lowers Dementia Risk
After adjusting for other potentially related factors, the one-third of individuals who consumed the most vitamin E (a median or midpoint of 18.5 milligrams per day) were 25 percent less likely to develop dementia than the one-third of participants who consumed the least (a median of 9 milligrams per day).
Dietary intake levels of vitamin C, beta carotene and flavonoids were
not associated with dementia risk. Results were similar when only the participants diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease were assessed.
"The brain is a site of high metabolic activity, which makes it vulnerable to oxidative damage, and slow accumulation of such damage over a lifetime may contribute to the development of dementia," the authors said.
"In particular, when beta-amyloid (a hallmark of pathologic Alzheimer's disease) accumulates in the brain, an inflammatory response is likely evoked that produces nitric oxide radicals and downstream neurodegenerative effects. Vitamin E is a powerful fat-soluble antioxidant that may help to inhibit the pathogenesis of dementia," they added.
The study appears in the July issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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