Vitamin E progression slows Alzheimer's disease

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A daily dose of vitamin E may slow functional decline and reduce the caregiver in supporting Alzheimer's patients.

Researchers have found out, that alpha-tocopherol - showed fat-soluble vitamins (E) and antioxidant - patients with moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) in clinical course slowed down to be effective.

"We the efficacy and safety of vitamin E and memantine (a drug for the treatment of moderate to severe dementia of the Alzheimer's type) in patients, which it had examined an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (a chemical, the amount and duration of the action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine increases),", said Maurice W. Dysken of the Minneapolis VA health care system.

The study included 613 patients at 14 medical centers. The participants received either 2,000 IU/day of vitamin E 20 mg / day of memantine, a combination of vitamin E and memantine or placebo - a substance that no medicines and prescribed to strengthen the expectation of the patient well.

They found that participants receive vitamin E slow functional decline than those receiving placebo had. Memantine neither the combination of vitamin E and memantine in this study showed clinical benefit, claiming the study published in the journal American Medical Association (JAMA).

"Since vitamin E is inexpensive, it is likely that these services are cheaper than alpha-tocopherol improves functional results and reduces the burden of the caregiver," the study concluded.

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