Association of vitamin E intake in diet and supplements with risk of dementia: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dementia is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disease that can lead to disability and death in humans, but there is still no effective prevention and treatment. Due to the neuroprotective effects of vitamin E, a large number of researchers have explored whether vitamin E can reduce the risk of dementia. Some researchers believe that vitamin E can reduce the risk of dementia, while others hold the opposite conclusion. We therefore performed a meta-analysis to clarify the relationship between them.

Methods

We searched PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases for articles on the connection of dietary and supplementation vitamin E with dementia risk from inception through April 2022 using the main keywords "dementia," "Alzheimer's disease," "vitamin E," and

SUBMITTER: Zhao R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9376618 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature