Vitamin C and E do not reduce the risk of hypertension

Many women in early pregnancy have started taking vitamin C and E supplements in hopes of helping to prevent complications of hypertension during pregnancy.

However, the latest study by American scientists found that this method did not bring any effect.

The latest issue in the New England Journal of Medicine, published by University of Pittsburgh scientists, suggests that many small-scale studies have previously concluded pregnancy vitamin supplementation. may reduce the risk of complications of hypertension in pregnancy of pregnant women.

However, after conducting a large-scale study, American scientists discovered that vitamin supplements basically did not lower the risk of complications of pregnancy hypertension.

The scientists selected 10 thousand pregnant women from 9 weeks to 16 weeks, then divided into two groups, the experimental group and the comparison group.

Pregnancy depends on the daily group of patients supplementing with vitamins C and E, pregnant women in the placebo comparison group. These women have good health and are pregnant for the first time.

Scientists follow up and investigate these pregnant women until they give birth. The findings, the probability of complications of hypertension in the pregnancy of the pregnant women in the above two groups is not significantly different./.