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The latest sleight of hand from the anti-vitamin lobby

16 April 2008
By Robert Verkerk PhD (Executive & Scientific Director) and
Dr Damien Downing (Medical Director)

Today sees the release of yet another "study" led by Serbian scientist and "visiting researcher" at Copenhagen University Hospital, Goran Bjelakovic. His name is now synonymous with vitamin meta-analyses (studies of other studies) which appear to show that vitamin supplements either don't work or end up increasing your risk of death. Two recent bursts of negative international headlines on vitamins supplements (1 October 2004 and 28 February 2007) followed releases of previous research papers (see asterisked articles in Reference list below).