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who took vitamin E that found it was ineffective at preventing heart disease. Traber argued that they did not show there was a 34 per cent reduction in heart attacks and a 49 per cent reduction in cardiovascular deaths. She continued to study the effects of
Vitamin E on children and in 2010, led a clinical study showing a possible link between peripheral neuropathy and vitamin E deficiencies. She reached this conclusion by analysing eight children with third-degree burns who had lost almost half of their stored vitamin E despite being given a high-calorie diet that contained about 150 percent of the recommended daily allowance of the vitamin.
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on a study examining its benefits for athletes. Her research team examined the benefits of vitamin E supplements for runners in a 50-kilometre ultramarathon and found that they did not experience the usual increase in lipid oxidation. She also disputed the results of a 10-year study of women over 45
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Medical Research Foundation of Oregon's 2021 Discovery Award. She was also elected a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition Foundation for "shedding light on key mechanisms for the
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research as its deficiencies were attributed to neurological disorders. Traber worked with a research team to study low-density lipoprotein receptors in individuals suffering from inherited disorders of metabolic diseases. This led Traber and her colleagues to begin investigating the absorption and
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Alzheimer's disease. By 2013, Traber gained recognition for "pioneering the use of deuterium-labeled Vitamin E for studies evaluating
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Sciences Award for her "lifetime commitment and scientific achievements in the field of vitamin E research." She also earned the 2013
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