Commentary: The Long History of Vitamin C: From Prevention of the Common Cold to Potential Aid in the Treatment of COVID-19.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Vitamin C reduces the severity of common colds: a meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2023
   Pooled it
2. High-Dose Vitamin C Supplementation as a Legitimate Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Prophylaxis in Healthy Subjects-Yes or No?Nutrients · 2022
   Review
3. Bias against Vitamin C in Mainstream Medicine: Examples from Trials of Vitamin C for Infections.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
   Review
4. Vitamin C May Increase the Recovery Rate of Outpatient Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Infection by 70%: Reanalysis of the COVID A to Z Randomized Clinical Trial.Frontiers in immunology · 2021
   Article
5. Vitamin C and zinc lozenges for COVID-19?Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA
   Article

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  The Long History of Vitamin C: From Prevention of the Common Cold to Potential Aid in the Treatment of COVID-19.2020

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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