Vitamin E supplementation may transiently increase tuberculosis risk in males who smoke heavily and have high dietary vitamin C intake – comments by Hernández-Garduño

Abstract

Hemilä & Kaprio(1) found a 72 % increase in the risk of tuberculosis (TB) in males taking vitamin E supplements and having high dietary vitamin C intake; the effect was restricted to heavy smokers as part of the Alpha-Tocopherol Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study.