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Arch Ophthalmol. 2005;123:395-396.

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An oral presentation at the November 2004 meeting of the American College of Physicians in New Orleans, La, which summarized a meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials of vitamin E, received much attention from the press, with headlines such as "Vitamin E Supplements Might Kill You" and "Vitamin E Can Be Deadly." The article,¹ published in the January 2005 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine, reports that taking high-dose vitamin E supplements does not lower the risk of death and might be associated with a small increase in the risk of death. These study conclusions have resulted in confusion among the treating physicians and persons who are at moderate or high risk for developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and who are taking the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) supplements that include 400 international units (IU) of vitamin E daily.²

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Emily Y. Chew, MD; Traci Clemons, PhD

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