Taking a daily multivitamin does not help you live longer, study finds [Video]

Many adults take daily multivitamins in hopes of bettering their health. But a new study is calling their usefulness into question.

In the study, published in JAMA Network Open Wednesday, researchers analyzed data from nearly 400,000 healthy U.S. adults followed for more than 20 years and found no association between regular multivitamin use and lower risk of death.

The study was led by researchers from National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute, who noted the participants studied were generally healthy, meaning more research is needed for populations with nutritional deficiencies.

“What we’re seeing is whether it’s death from cancer, from heart disease, from stroke, we’re not seeing a benefit from taking multivitamins,” Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, said of the study on “CBS Mornings” Thursday.

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