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T1  - Vitamin C supplementation and common cold symptoms: Problems with inaccurate reviews 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/225877 
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A1  - Hemilä, Harri 
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Y1  - 1996 
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AB  - In 1971, Linus Pauling carried out a meta-analysis of four placebo-controlled trials and concluded that it was highly unlikely that the decrease in the "integrated morbidity of the common cold" in vitamin C groups was caused by chance alone (P < 0.00003). Studies carried out since then have consistently found that vitamin C (> or = 1 g/d) alleviates common cold symptoms, indicating that the vitamin does indeed have physiologic effects on colds. However, widespread conviction that the vitamin has... 
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KW  - ascorbic acid; common cold; upper respiratory infections; rhinovirus; clinical trials; therapy; ASCORBIC-ACID; PROPHYLAXIS; SCHOOLCHILDREN; CHOLESTEROL; EFFICACY; ILLNESS; NEED; 314 Health sciences 
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