(BlackDoctor.org) -- Lowering risk of cancer, heart disease, and death in postmenopausal women may not be found in multivitamins that still should be taken daily.
That's according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Here are highlights from the study, which included 161,800 postmenopausal U.S. women followed for about eight years:
About 42% of the women reported taking multivitamins.
During the study period, new cases of certain cancers (including breast cancer, lung cancer, and colorectal cancer), heart disease, and deaths from any cause were similar in women taking multivitamins and those not taking multivitamins.
Adjusting for the women's age, race, BMI, physical activity, alcohol use, smoking, and other factors didn't change the results. But the researchers couldn't adjust for every possible influence.
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