Vitamin C and Improved Health-related Quality of Life

• Vitamin C for asthma and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction.

  • 2013-10-23
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 419
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2018(6)
  • • Stephen J Milan
    • Anna Hart
    • Mark Wilkinson

  • PubMed: 24154977
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd010391.pub2

  5 Insights on

  • Improved Health-related Quality of Life

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  One study on 201 adults with asthma reported no significant difference in our primary outcome, health-related quality of life (HRQL), and overall the quality of this evidence was low.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  daily vitamin C supplementation (varied doses across studies)