Word: beta
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Already, a growing number of researchers atHarvard and elsewhere are trying to isolate theeffect on humans of beta carotene, first isolatedfrom carrots...
...Micheline Mathews-Roth, an associateprofessor of medicine at the Medical School, saysthat she expects to publish a paper sometime in1991 directly linking beta carotene to theprevention of bladder cancer...
After six years, Gaziano and co-workers foundthat men taking a 50-milligram beta carotene pillevery other day (about 25 times the averageintake) were only half as likely as those takingplacebo pills to suffer a heart attack, an evenbetter result than the stunning 44 percentreduction achieved with aspirin...
Perhaps more importantly, researchers are waryof publicizing beta carotene's potential whilethousands of their subjects are still involved inthe study, either as controls or as beta carotenetakers...
Scientists at Harvard and elsewhere haveproposed that beta carotene could hinder theoperation of low density lipoproteins (LDL), aform of cholesterol which is a prime suspect intumor growth...