Artificial enrichment of foods with folic acid may reduce the number of deaths from heart attack and stroke by three to four percent per year. Researchers analyzed death caused by heart attack and stroke in people older than forty years. The research covered the period before the introduction of compulsory artificial enrichment of foods with folic acid - fortification in the U.S. and Canada, namely the period from 1990 to 1997, and years after its introduction - from 1988 to 2002.

Excessive doses of vitamin E, which is ordained as the most common antiaging nutritional supplement, may have dangerous health consequences. Mainly people with diabetes and circulatory diseases are at risk because vitamin treatment may lead to sudden myocardial infarction, or cause cancer. This was found by the research performed by canadian university staff of Canadian clinic.

Synthetic vitamin significantly increases the risk of heart disease, at least in diabetes pacients. Study by U.S. experts based on observations of 1923 diabetics, of which over 15 years 281 people died of a heart attack. Then the researchers excluded from the statistics of other known risk factors for circulatory disease, experienced a shock.

Ascorbic acid, better known as vitamin C, improves autonomic nervous system response during the exercise in a heart attack patients. Nervous systems controls the heart rate and other involuntary body responses. This was published in the professional medical journal International Journal of Cardiology.

Current research in the journal Circulation * indicates that the fortification of foods with folic acid may reduce the number of deaths from heart attack and stroke by 3 to 4 percent per year. Researchers analyzed death due to heart attack and stroke in people older than 40 years. The research covered the period before the introduction of mandatory fortification of foods with folic acid in the USA and Canada (1990 -1997) as well years after its introduction (1998-2002).

Taking folic acid (folate) and vitamin B6 is often associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, study results are not consistent. The study was conducted in Milan (Italy) in 1995 - 1999. Information was collected through questionnaires.

Consuming a large amount of vitamin E may increase risk of heart attack for many people, instead of its reduction. According to the U.S. study, published in the latest issue of Training Journal of the American Medical Association, there is the risk of patients suffering from diabetes or those with narrowing arteries. Vitamin E is juvenescent while praised as a means of a preventive effect against heart disease and cancer.

There are a series of reports on the beneficial effects of antioxidant vitamin E as a means of preventing cardiovascular diseases and the development of atherosclerosis. One of observational studies concluded that people who consume more than 100 IU of vitamin E daily for more than two years, less frequently have heart attack and the development of atherosclerosis in coronary artery disease is slowed. Such a view is quite widespread.