Women who take multivitamin pills daily have a higher incidence of breast cancer than those that do not take vitamins supplements, according to a new Swedish study which has been unable to explain why.
“Even if we do not know whether there is a causal link, our results are an alarm signal which must be taken seriously and researched further,” said Susanna Larsson at Karolinska Institutet to Uppsala Nya Tidning.
35,000 women in Uppsala and Västmanland county took part in the study which has been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
None of the women had cancer when the study was launched at the end of the 1990s; during the following ten years 974 contracted the condition. Read more…
