Can Vitamins Help Kids With High Cholesterol?

HealthDay, August, 2003

(HealthDay is the new name for HealthScoutNews.)

Can a simple daily regimen of vitamins help children with high cholesterol avoid heart disease later in life?

A small study had found that, for children with inherited disorders causing them to have elevated cholesterol levels, adding the antioxidant vitamins C and E enhanced the functioning of the blood vessels.

"This offers a little promise because it shows that vitamins can somehow help the blood vessels open up, or dilate," says study author Marguerite M. Engler, a professor of physiological nursing at the University of California at San Francisco. "If you do that, you may be able to prevent heart disease early in adulthood."

Others are not so sure.

"It's a provocative study, but the conclusion that...

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