Vitamin E deficiency


  • Lack of vitamin E in diet
  • Insufficient dietary sources of vitamin E

Claim

  1. Taking dietary supplements of vitamin E reduces the risk of heart attack. It is therefore likely that a deficiency of vitamin E increases the risk of heart attack.

  2. Vitamin E strengthens the immune system in older people and reduces infection-related illnesses.

Counter claim

  1. A 2000 study of more than 11,000 heart attack survivors reported that Vitamin E had no effect.


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