17 As to the findings in the other intervention trials on respiratory infections, Harman and Miller, 17 found no differences between the vitamin E and placebo groups, Graat et al 18 in their small study, found significant harm from vitamin E, and Meydani et al 19 found a marginally significant benefit.
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Vitamin E administration may decrease the incidence of pneumonia in elderly males.
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28 Our previous individual-level analysis of total mortality in the ATBC study found highly significant heterogeneity in the effects of vitamin E, which challenges the validity of calculating a single estimate of effect in meta-analyses.