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The Turlock vitamin–mineral supplementation trial: a statistical reanalysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Eric Peritz
Eric Peritz
Affiliation:
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel
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Summary

A new analysis of a randomised double-blind trial confirms the fact that vitamin–mineral supplementation has a statistically significant effect on non-verbal IQ as measured by the WISC-R test. Further studies may show if this effect is large enough to be of practical importance.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 155 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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