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Interference of Intravenous Vitamin C With Blood Glucose Testing [PDF]

Diabetes Care, 2014
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is an integral component in the management of diabetes. However, it is important to understand the limitations of SMBG due to presence of interfering substances (1). We present a patient with diabetes and malignancy, who had falsely elevated blood glucose readings following administration of intravenous ascorbic ...
Sumangala Vasudevan, Irl B. Hirsch
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Intravenous Vitamin C for Cancer Therapy – Identifying the Current Gaps in Our Knowledge

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
The use of intravenous vitamin C (IVC) for cancer therapy has long been an area of intense controversy. Despite this, high dose IVC has been administered for decades by complementary health care practitioners and physicians, with little evidence base ...
Anitra C. Carr, John Cook
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Mortality in septic patients treated with vitamin C: a systematic meta-analysis

Critical Care, 2021
Background Supplementation of vitamin C in septic patients remains controversial despite eight large clinical trials published only in 2020. We aimed to evaluate the evidence on potential effects of vitamin C treatment on mortality in adult septic ...
Sean S. Scholz, Rainer Borgstedt, Nicole Ebeling, Leoni C. Menzel, Gerrit Jansen, Sebastian Rehberg   +5 more
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Adjunctive intravenous then oral vitamin C for moderate and severe community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized adults: feasibility of randomized controlled trial

Scientific Reports, 2023
Patients hospitalised with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) have low peripheral blood vitamin C concentrations and limited antioxidant capacity.
Stephen T. Chambers, Malina Storer, Amy Scott-Thomas, Sandy Slow, Jonathan Williman, Michael Epton, David R. Murdoch, Sarah Metcalf, Anitra Carr, Heather Isenman, Michael Maze   +10 more
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Stability of intravenous vitamin C solutions: a technical report

Critical Care and Resuscitation, 2018
There has recently been a surge of interest in intravenous (IV) vitamin C as a potential therapy in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, particularly in those with septic shock. Establishing the safety and efficacy of IV vitamin C therapy through rigorously conducted randomised controlled trials is a priority.
Anitra, Carr, Christina, Wohlrab, Paul, Young, Rinaldo, Bellomo   +3 more
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Vitamin C: intravenous use by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and adverse effects. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Anecdotal information and case reports suggest that intravenously administered vitamin C is used by Complementary and Alternate Medicine (CAM) practitioners. The scale of such use in the U.S.
Sebastian J Padayatty, Andrew Y Sun, Qi Chen, Michael Graham Espey, Jeanne Drisko, Mark Levine   +5 more
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Vitamin C supplementation in the critically ill: A systematic review and meta-analysis

SAGE Open Medicine, 2018
Background: Low plasma levels of vitamin C are associated with adverse outcomes, including increased mortality, in critically ill patients. Several trials have suggested that the administration of intravenous vitamin C in this setting may have beneficial
Michael Zhang, David F Jativa
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Intravenous Vitamin C Administration Improved Blood Cell Counts and Health-Related Quality of Life of Patient with History of Relapsed Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

Antioxidants, 2018
A 52-year-old female presented to Integrated Health Options Clinic in October 2014 with a history of relapsed acute myeloid leukaemia (AML, diagnosed in 2009 and relapsed in 2014).
Mike N. Foster, Anitra C. Carr, Alina Antony, Selene Peng, Mike G. Fitzpatrick   +4 more
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Vitamin C in Cancer: A Metabolomics Perspective

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
There is an ongoing interest in cellular antioxidants and oxidants as well as cellular mechanisms underlying their effects. Several reports suggest that vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) functions as a pro-oxidant with selective toxicity against specific types
Seyeon Park, Seunghyun Ahn, Yujeong Shin, Yoonjung Yang, Chang H. Yeom   +4 more
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Lessening Organ dysfunction with VITamin C (LOVIT): protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2020
Background Sepsis is a health problem of global importance; treatments focus on controlling infection and supporting failing organs. Recent clinical research suggests that intravenous vitamin C may decrease mortality in sepsis.
Marie-Hélène Masse, Julie Ménard, Sheila Sprague, Marie-Claude Battista, Deborah J. Cook, Gordon H. Guyatt, Daren K. Heyland, Salmaan Kanji, Ruxandra Pinto, Andrew G. Day, Dian Cohen, Djillali Annane, Shay McGuinness, Rachael Parke, Anitra Carr, Yaseen Arabi, Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, Frédérick D’Aragon, Élaine Carbonneau, David Maslove, Miranda Hunt, Bram Rochwerg, Tina Millen, Michaël Chassé, Martine Lebrasseur, Patrick Archambault, Estel Deblois, Christine Drouin, François Lellouche, Patricia Lizotte, Irene Watpool, Rebecca Porteous, France Clarke, Nicole Marinoff, Émilie Belley-Côté, Brigitte Bolduc, Scott Walker, John Iazzetta, Neill K. J. Adhikari, François Lamontagne, on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group   +40 more
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