Antioxidant supplements for prevention of mortality in healthy participants and patients with various diseases

Short summary

Antioxidant supplements, including beta-carotene and vitamin E, significantly increased mortality risk by 4% (RR 1.04, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.07) in a meta-analysis of 56 high-quality randomized trials involving over 146,000 participants.

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