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" Vitamin E - which is also known as alpha tocopherol - could be used to help fight dementia, research carried out in the US has discovered. A study examined 613 Alzheimer&amp;#039;s patients who had a mild or moderate form of the disease. The patients were split into two groups and each day, they either received a dose of Vitamin E, memantine (a drug regularly used to treat dementia), a mixture of the two, or a placebo drug.\u00A0 How well the patients could perform certain tasks including washing and dressing themselves was monitored over a two-year period. The results of the investigation showed that those who had regularly taken a dose of Vitamin E declined at a much slower rate than those who had taken the placebo treatment. Over just one year, the decline rate decreased by 19 per cent.\u00A0 Dr Maurice Dysken of the Minneapolis VA Health Care System led the study. He said: &amp;quot;These findings suggest that alpha tocopherol is beneficial in mild to moderate Alzheimer&amp;#039;s disease by slowing functional decline&amp;quot;, the BBC reported. Read the study here "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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