Vitamin E levels associated with lower dementia risk

Consuming more vitamin E through the diet appears to be associated with a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in Archives of Neurology.

Researchers assessed 5,395 participants 55 years and older who did not have dementia between 1990 and 1993. Over an average of 9.6 years of follow-up, 465 participants developed dementia; 365 of those were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. 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).

Steve - it seems that vitamin E is indeed showing its merit after years of being vilified.