Plasma vitamin C predicts incident heart failure

[rasarver]

"The risk of heart failure decreased with increasing plasma vitamin C; the hazard ratios comparing each quartile with the lowest were 0.76 (95% CI 0.65-0.88), 0.70 (95% CI 0.60-0.81), and 0.62 (95% CI 0.53-0.74) in age- and sex-adjusted analyses (P for trend <.0001). Every 20 μmol/L increase in plasma vitamin C concentration (1 SD) was associated with a 9% relative reduction in risk of heart failure after adjustment for age, sex, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, occupational social class, educational level, systolic blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol concentration, and body mass index, with similar result if adjusting for interim coronary heart disease."

See full article at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 0311003516

[ofonorow]

Okay, so maybe I was wrong. Perhaps THIS is the study they saw coming that initiated the anti-vitamin media onslaught?

Great find/post. Thanks.