Vitamin C deficiency identified in adult hospital patients
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:12 am
https://lens.monash.edu/@medicine-health/2024/03/14/1386509/vitamin-c-deficiency-identified-in-adult-hospital-patients
We examined 22 studies with patients from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the US, Canada, the UK, France, and Germany. The results are now published in Nutrition Reviews.
The numbers show that 27.7% of 2494 adult hospital inpatients had vitamin C deficiency, using the World Health Organisation reference standards.