Low Vitamin E Levels Associated With Physical Decline in Elderly; Benedetta Bartali.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 January 2008-Yale University: Low Vitamin E Levels Associated With Physical Decline in Elderly; Benedetta Bartali(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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New Haven, Conn. -- Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that a low concentration of vitamin E in the blood is linked with physical decline in older persons.

Published in the January 23 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, the study included 698 people age 65 or older who were randomly selected from the population registry in two municipalities close to Florence, Italy. The researchers, led by first author Benedetta Bartali of Yale, collected blood samples to measure the levels of micronutrients including folate, iron and vitamins B6,...