Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 0503-0504

  Douglas, Robert M ^a   Hemilä, Harri ^b  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FORMULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; META ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL STRESS; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ARTICLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

ASCORBIC ACID; COMMON COLD; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 22144441390     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020168     Document Type: Short Survey

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