carotenoids and stroke, study

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Lacking particular carotenoids increases the risk of stroke by 40% in men The Physicians Health Study involved 22,071 male doctors in the USA, 68% of whom supplied blood samples at the start of the study in 1982. A total of 15,000 did not have cardiovascular disease at the start of the study, and 297 of these developed an ischemic stroke during the studies’ 13 year follow up. It was found that having low levels of Alpha-Carotene, Beta-Carotene, and Lycopene increased the risk of ischemic stroke by 40%. The study is published in the early on-line edition of Stroke, a journal of the American heart Association.