# does Vitamin E prevent heart disease?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2001, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vitamin-e-prevent-heart-disease/63109 "2001-04-24T09:42:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhyll06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@jhyll06](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jhyll06)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vitamin-e-prevent-heart-disease/63109/1 "2001-04-24T09:42:01Z")

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hey guyz! i need your help. my classmate and i are doing a research about vitamin e. we really need to know if vitamin e prevents heart disease. i have read several articles about this topic but there is still no definite answer. we really need your help guyz! thanks

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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vitamin-e-prevent-heart-disease/63109/2 "2001-04-24T11:30:49Z")

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Do a web search using terms like vitamin E and HOPE (HOPE is the acronym of a research study which pretty much put to rest the idea that vitamin E can prevent heart disease in people at high risk for it).

Notwithstanding HOPE, it may still be that vitamin E has some protective effect if used early enough in life or in the “right” people.

For an opposing view, do a search using the terms vitamin E and CHAOS (with CHAOS being another acronym for a research study involving vitamin E, albeit with fewer patients).

I don’t have time to give a more detailed answer now, but will come back later unless others have provided enough info.

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**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vitamin-e-prevent-heart-disease/63109/3 "2001-04-29T10:56:46Z")

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In scientific testing, Vitamin E has been proven to boost your ability to do your own homework assignments without cheating.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-vitamin-e-prevent-heart-disease/63109/4 "2001-04-29T14:21:01Z")

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" i have read several articles about this topic but  
there is still no definite answer."

Cause there ain’t. Thus you write: results inconclusive.