Nearly 1 in 3 adults take multivitamins in the United States, according to researchers.
Taking multivitamins won't make you live any longer, research has found.Scientists have discovered that healthy adults who take multivitamins daily are no less likely to die of any cause than those who don't, according to a new paper in the journal JAMA Network Open.Therefore, there is no link between taking multivitamins and reduced likelihood of death.Multivitamins typically contain a combination of essential vitamins and minerals.
They discovered that there was no reduction in risk of death from any cause associated with multivitamin use, including cancer, heart disease or cerebrovascular diseases.'In this cohort study of 390,124 generally healthy US adults with more than 20 years of follow-up, daily MV use was not associated with a mortality benefit,' they wrote. 'In contrast, we found that daily MV use vs nonuse was associated with 4% higher mortality risk.
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