Study of B Vitamins Casts Doubt On Their Use in Alzheimer's War

Robert Clarke, the researcher who first proposed the "homocysteine hypothesis" of dementia in 1998, criticized the new study in an accompanying article in the journal. "A trial with 276 healthy individuals from New Zealand treated for just two years was inadequately powered to test th...

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Published inThe Wall Street journal. Eastern edition
Main Author Seward, Zachary M
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y Dow Jones & Company Inc 29.06.2006
EditionEastern edition
Subjects
Alzheimer's disease
Brain
Clinical trials
Dementia
Homocysteine
Hypotheses
Studies
Vitamin B
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Summary:Robert Clarke, the researcher who first proposed the "homocysteine hypothesis" of dementia in 1998, criticized the new study in an accompanying article in the journal. "A trial with 276 healthy individuals from New Zealand treated for just two years was inadequately powered to test the hypothesis," says Dr. Clarke, a researcher at the University of Oxford, in England. "Don't write it off on the basis of this study."
ISSN:0099-9660