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EDITORIALS: Joe Collier Vitamin B-6: food or medicine? BMJ 1998; 317: 92-93 [Full text]

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Juliet Cohen   (20 July 1998)

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Juliet Cohen Send response to journal: Re: this article	Editor, In the recent editorial on vitamin B-6 Joe Collier discusses the crucial question of any risk involved in taking it. He concludes that he agrees with the Committee on Toxicity's decision that there is. Yet in his own words this is based on a study from over ten years ago, featuring only 172 women. "The results were not consistent with other studies and the trial design was weak." What is the justification for citing this as conclusive evidence of risk? Juliet Cohen General Practitioner 15 Denbigh St, Pimlico, London SW1 Fax 0181 671 7103