Meta Analysis Sooths Doctor's Fears Vitamin C Helps with ICU patients
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 6:44 am
Vitamin C does not significantly improve outcomes of ICU patients
https://speciality.medicaldialogues.in/vitamin-c-does-not-significantly-improve-outcomes-of-icu-patients/
This news is based on a Swizz "meta-analysis" of randomized controlled trials. The obvious rebuttal is that medicine always uses very small doses of vitamin C in these "trials." So far, I can find no list of the trials included in the analysis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30839358
https://speciality.medicaldialogues.in/vitamin-c-does-not-significantly-improve-outcomes-of-icu-patients/
This news is based on a Swizz "meta-analysis" of randomized controlled trials. The obvious rebuttal is that medicine always uses very small doses of vitamin C in these "trials." So far, I can find no list of the trials included in the analysis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30839358
Forty-four randomized studies, 16 performed in ICU setting (2,857 patients) and 28 in cardiac surgery (3,598 patients), published between 1995 and 2018, were included in the analysis. In ICU patients