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Weber
Family Chiropractic - Weekly Health Tip September
7, 2026 |
Dear patient and friend,
In the journals I read I often come
across new developments in the science of chiropractic. However, people like you never become aware
of these important ideas since the media reports so little of it.
Therefore I’ve taken yet upon myself
to keep you informed of crucial breakthroughs because I know how important they
can be to you, your family and friends.
As your doctor, I believe it’s part of my sacred trust. So for your information and consideration,
here are these unique and revolutionary developments.
Dear patient and friend,
In the journals I read I often come across new developments
in the science of chiropractic. However,
people like yourself never become aware of these important ideas since the
media reports so little of it.
Therefore I’ve taken yet upon myself to keep you informed of
crucial breakthroughs because I know how important they can be to you, your
family and friends. As your doctor, I
believe it’s part of my sacred trust.
So, for your information and consideration, here are these unique and
revolutionary developments.
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Postmenopausal breast cancer patients had a significantly lower
risk of dying of the disease if they consumed multivitamins with minerals.
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Note that the results suggest a possible role for daily multivitamin
with mineral use in women with invasive breast cancer but the findings require
confirmation.
Postmenopausal breast cancer patients had a significantly lower
risk of dying of the disease if they consumed multivitamins with minerals, an
analysis of data from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) showed.
Overall, use of multivitamins with minerals was associated with
a 30% lower likelihood of breast cancer mortality in women who were already taking
the vitamins at diagnosis. A matched analysis yielded a similar reduction in
the hazard for fatal breast cancer.
"This large prospective study among U.S. older women showed
a consistent association between multivitamin and mineral use and lower breast
cancer mortality," Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, PhD, of Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., and co-authors reported online in Breast
Cancer Research and Treatment. "Such suggestive evidence of benefit of multivitamin
with minerals in the breast cancer setting is intriguing but should be followed
up in future investigations."
Despite widespread use of multivitamins in the U.S., little
information has accumulated regarding the relationship between vitamin
consumption and breast cancer mortality in women with newly diagnosed breast
cancer. An earlier analysis of WHI data showed no association between
multivitamin use and the risk of developing breast cancer.
A handful of other observational studies produced inconsistent
results regarding associations between vitamin intake and the risk of breast
cancer, other diseases, or overall mortality.
Whether multivitamin use affects breast cancer mortality
remained unclear. To examine the issue investigators analyzed data for 8,048
women who developed breast cancer during follow-up in the WHI.
WHI comprised 161,608 women ages 50 to 79, enrolled at 40 clinical
centers in the U.S. from 1993 to 1998. Multiple observational studies and
clinical trials were conducted in the WHI patient population, and participants
could be enrolled in overlapping studies. The 8,048 participants included in
the analysis comprised women from the observational studies and clinical
trials.
Use of dietary supplements and medication were documented at
each follow-up visit. At each visit, participants were asked whether they had used
vitamins at least once a week during the previous 2 weeks. Wassertheil-Smoller
and colleagues did not have information about frequency of vitamin use.
The data showed that 40.4% (3,240) of participants reported
vitamin use at baseline, including 2,920 who used multivitamins with minerals
(the remaining participants using multivitamins only). During a mean follow-up
of 7.1 years from breast cancer diagnosis, 518 WHI participants died of breast
cancer.
The primary analysis considered use of multivitamins with
minerals at baseline. A secondary analysis considered use of multivitamins with
minerals at a follow-up visit closest to the time of breast cancer diagnosis.
Investigators found that 2,239 participants were taking
multivitamins with minerals at baseline and at the visit closest to breast
cancer diagnosis, a subgroup defined as consistent users. The comparison group
consisted of 3,358 participants who were consistent nonusers of multivitamins with
minerals.
A comparison of consistent users and nonusers of multivitamins
with minerals produced a hazard ratio of 0.70 for breast cancer mortality in
favor of the consistent users. The difference translated into a 30% relative
risk reduction (HR 0.70, 95% CI 0.55-0.91). The association persisted across
multiple adjustments for potential confounders and in a propensity
score-matched analysis (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.60-0.96).
"The current findings of lower breast cancer mortality with
multivitamins with minerals use in the largest number to date of breast cancer
cases in postmenopausal women suggest possible benefit for multivitamin use in
women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer," the authors said in their
discussion of the results.
"However, cautious interpretation is needed, especially for
concurrent use during chemotherapy and radiation therapy. We do not have data
on treatment of breast cancer in the cases and cannot comment on the potential interactions
between multivitamins with minerals uses and breast cancer therapy in this
study."
The Women's Health Initiative is
funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Dr. Scott Weber
Weber Family Chiropractic
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