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Show Deficiency of common vitamin may trigger heart attacks, strokes BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) - A simple vitamin deficiency could trigger 30 percent to 40 percent of the heart attacks and strokes suffered by American men each year, a researcher reported yesterday. This startling revelation, emerging from a few dozen new studies, means that vitamin supplements might prevent many of those heart attacks, saving the country untold suffering and billions of dollars in medical costs. The vitamin is folic acid, heralded in recent years for its critical role in preventing birth defects. "This is so new there aren't recommendations," said Dr. Judith Hall, a geneticist at the University of British Columbia. She described the new findings at a genetics meeting at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor. 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