Multivitamin supplements are useful for reboost our organism before the onset of winter, but not only… according to a study conducted by American researchers on more than 161,000 postmenopausal women, consuming multivitamin and mineral supplements would help to fight breast cancer.
Among the volunteers, aged 50 to 79 and followed for seven years by scientists, 7,728 developed breast cancer. Four in ten used the supplements every day, before and during their cancer. Result: while taking into account other factors that can influence health such as tobacco, alcohol, age, weight or even physical activity, the researchers observed that they fought better against the disease.
“Postmenopausal women with invasive breast cancer using supplements have a lower mortality than those who do not,” says the team that conducted the study, published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. Their risk of mortality drops by 30%. Even if these results require confirmation, they have enabled the researchers to draw up a profile of the consumers of multivitamin supplements: they are elderly women, thin, Caucasian type, of a high level of education and salary and in good condition. health.