Smoking and Vitamin C Levels in Humans
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- 1 November 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 21 (11) , 1259-1267
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/21.11.1259
Abstract
Studies of five smokers and five nonsmokers gave supporting evidence that smokers, in comparison to nonsmokers, have low vitamin C plasma and blood levels and retain more ascorbic acid from load tests. During a desaturation period of 13 days on a vitamin C-deficient diet, the rate of loss of vitamin C in blood and plasma was about the same in both groups and there was no significant difference in retention by a resaturation test.Keywords
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