Vitamin C. From scurvy to the ideal vitamin balance
Labadie, H.
Presse Medicale 20(42): 2156-2158
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0755-4982 PMID: 1837366 Document Number: 373585
Scurvy is caused by severe deficiency of vitamin C or ascorbic acid, and is usually diagnosed by the overt clinical signs which appear at an advanced stage. Laboratory examinations, and in particular ascorbic acid assays, do not yet enable subclinical vitamin C deficiency to be reliably detected; hence the importance of knowing the situation which expose to this deficiency.
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