Editor’s ChoiceMultivitamins in the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease: the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) randomized clinical trial
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The COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) is supported by an investigator-initiated grant from Mars Edge, a segment of Mars dedicated to nutrition research and products, which included infrastructure support and the donation of study pills and packaging. Pfizer Consumer Healthcare (now part of GSK Consumer Healthcare) provided support through the partial provision of study pills and packaging. COSMOS is also supported, in part, by grants AG050657, AG071611, EY025623, and HL157665 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, US Department of Health and Human Services through contracts 75N92021D00001, 75N92021D00002, 75N92021D00003, 75N92021D00004, and 75N92021D00005. Neither Mars Edge nor Pfizer (GSK) Consumer Healthcare provided input regarding the design of the study, data analyses, interpretation of results, or manuscript development nor did they review, comment, or approve the manuscript.
Supplementary Methods, Supplementary Results, Supplementary Figures 1–9, and Supplementary Tables 1 and 2 are available from the “Supplementary data” link in the online posting of the article and from the same link in the online table of contents at https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/.
COSMOS was approved and overseen by the Institutional Review Board of Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Mass General Brigham. The COSMOS website is www.cosmostrial.org.
HDS and PMR contributed equally as co-first authors.