Vitamin C and infections

H Hemilä - Nutrients, 2017 - mdpi.com
In the early literature, vitamin C deficiency was associated with pneumonia. After its
identification, a number of studies investigated the effects of vitamin C on diverse infections …

Vitamin C for preventing and treating pneumonia

H Hemilä, P Louhiala - Cochrane database of systematic …, 2013 - cochranelibrary.com
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[HTML][HTML] Vitamin C can shorten the length of stay in the ICU: a meta-analysis

H Hemilä, E Chalker - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
A number of controlled trials have previously found that in some contexts, vitamin C can
have beneficial effects on blood pressure, infections, bronchoconstriction, atrial fibrillation …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and factors associated with vitamin C deficiency in inflammatory bowel disease

BL Gordon, JS Galati, S Yang… - World Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are prone to several
nutritional deficiencies. However, data are lacking on vitamin C deficiency in Crohn's …

Relationship between vitamin C deficiency and cognitive impairment in older hospitalised patients: a cross-sectional study

Y Sharma, A Popescu, C Horwood, P Hakendorf… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant and facilitates neurotransmission. This study explored
association between vitamin C deficiency and cognitive impairment in older hospitalised …

A proposed framework for the study of paleopathological cases of subadult scurvy

RJ Stark - International Journal of Paleopathology, 2014 - Elsevier
Paleopathological investigations of subadult scurvy have seen increasing frequency since
the introduction of the “Ortner criteria” of porotic cranial and infracranial lesions. With the rise …

Reuniting overnutrition and undernutrition, macronutrients, and micronutrients

M Kim, A Basharat, R Santosh, SF Mehdi… - Diabetes/metabolism …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over‐nutrition and its late consequences are a dominant theme in medicine today. In
addition to the health hazards brought on by over‐nutrition, the medical community has …

Scurvy is back

CA Callus, S Vella, P Ferry - Nutrition and Metabolic Insights, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and objective: Scurvy, caused by vitamin C deficiency, first described by
Hippocrates, is known to many as 'The Pirates' Disease'. Although a disease rarely …

Revisiting the pathobiology of scurvy: a review of the literature in the context of a challenging case

H Deirawan, JW Fakhoury, M Zarka… - International Journal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Scurvy is a nutritional disorder resulting from vitamin C deficiency. Although rare in
developing countries, scurvy continues to develop in settings of limited dietary intake such …

Vitamin C deficiency can lead to pulmonary hypertension: a systematic review of case reports

H Hemilä, AME de Man - BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background In the early literature, unintentional vitamin C deficiency in humans was
associated with heart failure. Experimental vitamin C deficiency in guinea pigs caused …