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TAURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949,
Experts Question Many
(laims For Vitamin "'E”
NEW YORK—(NEA) — M:
dostors — and the Food and lil)f-gg
Admmlstration —are getting wor
ried about claims that are being
made acli)%utdwhat Vitamin E is
supposed to do for a wide i
of human ills. ! i
In the past ¥wo or three years,
vitamin E has been described as
4 cure or partial cure for many
kinds of heart and circulation dis
ease, for a number of skin trou
ples caused by faulty circulation
__even for sugar diabetes.
The viewpoint of a growing
number of physicians, after care
ful clinical study, is expressed by
Drs. Samuel Baer and William I,
Heine of Jewish Hospital, Phila
delhpia, who wrote to the Journal
of the American Medical Associa
tion in March.
“We believe that so much harm
has resulted, and the public has
peen muicted of so much money,
that we should call attention to
the adverse conclusions published
concerning the use of vitamin E
in heart disease.” » :
Dr. Robert T. Stormone, medical
director of the Food and Drug
Administration, told NEA Ser
vice:
“We question a-n-y therapeutic
(curative) claims made for any
of the tocopherols which exhibit
vitamin E activity. The bulk of
the evidence regarding the use of
vitamin E in cardiac (heart) dis
eases indicates quite clearly that
it is of no value. Well controlled
clinical studies furnish quite con
clusive evidence for this view.
The evidence to the contrary is
based on what we regard as in
adequately controlled studies.
“We are most skeptical of the
alleged value of vitamin E in
diabetes. There are well-control
led studies under way at the pres
ent time on this matter, and we
hope to get a conclusive answer
in the near future. ‘
“In the meantime it is our
opinion that \it would be quite
definitely not in the public in
terest if diabetes are led to rely
on vitamin E and neglect treat
ment with insulin.”
For years after its discovery
in 1922, vitamin E was regarded
as the “fertility vitamin” or the
“anti-sterility vitamin.” Most doc
tors long since have stopped pre
scribing it for this, but laymen
still are buying it over the counter
with the idea it will help them
children. Of this, Dr. Stormont
“Although it has been demon
strated that vitamin E is neces
sary in the diet of the rat to in
sure successful reproduction, there
seems to be general agreement
that the vitamin is of no value in
the treatment of sterility in the
human. There is also fairly gen
eral agreement among recognized
authorities that it is not of value
in the treatment of habitual abor
tion in the human® : - o
Much of the publicity given to
vitamin E for heart, cirgulatory
and diabetic troubles centers
around Drs. Wilfrid E. Shute,
Evan V. Shute and Arthur Vogel
sang of London, Ontario, who
have reported remarkable results
from vitamin E in treating blood
clots in the circulatory system,
hardening of the arteries, high
blood pressure, ulcer and gan
grene due to faulty circulation,
muscle pains and muscle weak
nesses, injuries to the central ner
vours system, kidney troubles,
weak eyes, diabetes — and who
say they. cohoimer it Sobvions®
vitamin E should help with
chronic tuberculosis, burns, fail
ure of fractures to unite, and
other things. :
+ At a two day International Con
ference on Vitamin E, sponsored
recently by the New York Acade
my of Science, dozens of doctors
and research specialists reported
their findings. Many told of ap
parentl yhelpful results obtained
with vitamin E.
These are the reports which
Dr. Stormont felt were based on
“inadequately controlled studies.”
Dr. Stormont‘'s statement was
made after studying a report on
the conference from Dr. Leo G.
Parmer, New York district med-
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Cornell Study
The most nearly completely
“controlled ” clinical study re
| norted at the conference was by
}Dr. Janet Travel of the Cornell
| University Medical School faculty,
and four associates, all on the
staff of Beth Israel Hospital, New
York. They tested 38 victims of
heart risease. Matching them for
age, sex, duration and type of
pain, they gave vitamin E to 19
and a matching placebo to 19. A
placebo is a bread pill or any
thing that looks like medicine,
makes the patient think he is get
ting medicine, but actually con
tains no medical drugs.
{ One doctor gave the drug and
placebos. The other tested the
patients. Those who made the
test did not know which patients
had vitamin E and which had
placebos. Only one patient show
ed real improvement, and that
)one had received no vitamin E
i—only placebos.
| The doctors concluded that
! their experiments showed no basis
Ifor using vitamin E as a cure for
| heart disease, or for relief of heart
pains.
L In experiments “controlled”
differently, Dr. Milton E. Eisen of
City Hospital, New York, did not
find that vitamin E produced any
|subjective or objective improve
ments in hearts cases or in dis
| eases of the circulation of the legs.
He reports, in an article accepted
}for publication by the New York
l‘State Medical Journal, that some
patients actually became worse
Tduring treatment, ‘‘though not
| necessarily due to the treatment.”
Drs. Baer and Heine told the
conference that their tests with 30
patients showed no improvement
in any. Drs. Iver S. Ravin and
Kermit H. Katz, of the Boston
University School of Medicine, re
ported in the New England Jour
nal of Medicine that only one of
11 patients showed .“even slight
objective benefit.” Dr. Charles K.
Donegan and three associates at
the Duke University School of
Medicine studied seven patients
with each of three types of heart
disease, and reported that “no ap
preciable benefit” was found.
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