London, April 08: According to a research done by Swedish researchers, women who take a daily multivitamin pill to ward off illness may actually be increasing their risk of breast cancer.
More than 35,000 women aged between 49 and 83 were tracked by experts from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, over a ten-year period. It was found by them that those who regularly took multivitamins were 19 percent more likely to have developed a breast tumor.
According to the reports of dailymail. co. uk, even when researchers took account of whether the women smoked, exercised too much or had a family history of cancer, they still found a significant link with multivitamin use.
The researchers also remarked, “These results suggest multivitamin use is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. This is of concern and merits further investigation.”
———Agencies