Vitamin Supplementation and Stroke Prevention

I t is said that we are what we eat.It is advertised that vitamin supplements, of one kind or another, may invigorate us, our lives, and our health.Advertising has been so effective that in the year 2000, more than half of the adult population in the United States was taking dietary vitamin supplements. 1 This review examines the evidence linking vitamin supplementation with the incidence and prevention of stroke.