New Delhi: Vitamins are an important building block of the body and help you in good health. The usage of multivitamin supplements has rapidly increased in recent times, this medication is used to treat or prevent vitamin deficiency due to poor diet, typical illnesses and during pregnancy. A recent study has revealed that taking multivitamins may not help you live longer. It may not actually make you any healthier and may increase the risk of an early death.
According to the study, US researchers have analysed health records from about 400,000 adults with no major long-term diseases to check whether daily multivitamins lower their mortality risk over the next two decades. As per their findings, people who take multivitamins daily were more likely to die as compared to the non-users. Due to this, the government researchers commented that ‘multivitamin use to improve longevity is not supported.’
About half of the UK adults take multivitamins or dietary supplements one time a week or more, part of a domestic market worth over half a billion pounds annually.
Risk factors of multivitamins
Although multivitamins are very popular researchers have questioned the health benefits and risks of these supplements. Researchers have warned against the use of multivitamins because of their harmful effects. As per them, natural sources of food like beta-carotene protect against cancer but the beta-carotene supplements can raise the risk of lung cancer and heart disease risk. They said that these supplements miss out on important ingredients.
On the other hand, iron that is added to many multivitamins can lead to iron overload and may raise the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementia.
Mortality risk
Researchers have also found no evidence that taking multivitamins every day may reduce the risk of deaths and reported instead a 4 per cent higher risk of deaths among users in the earlier years of follow-up. The higher risk of death may reflect the dangers of multivitamins can cause or a trend for people to start daily multivitamins when they develop serious diseases, as per reports published in the JAMA Network.
According to the study, US researchers have analysed health records from about 400,000 adults with no major long-term diseases to check whether daily multivitamins lower their mortality risk over the next two decades. As per their findings, people who take multivitamins daily were more likely to die as compared to the non-users. Health Conditions Health News: Latest News from Health Care, Mental Health, Weight Loss, Disease, Nutrition, Healthcare
