Saturday, October 15, 2011

Vitamin E and Osteroporosis

Posted by Chantel M. Contributed by US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

According to the study of `Vitamin E prevents steroid-induced osteonecrosis in rabbits`by Kuribayashi M, Fujioka M, Takahashi KA, Arai Y, Ishida M, Goto T, Kubo T., posted in US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, researchers found that Alpha-tocopherol-supplemented diet reduced the incidence of osteonecrosis, which developed in 14 of 20 rabbits in the control group and 5 of 21 rabbits in the experimental group (p = 0.004), and suggested that our findings may offer a new approach for the prevention of corticosteroid-induced osteonecrosis


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