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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