werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (03/11/86)
[Although some people may consider this posting aid and comfort with the
enemy, its not that I deny that people need vitamins. It's just that most
people who can afford Vitamin supplements have no need for them.]
From JAMA, Nov. 22/29, 1985 254:2894
Reproduced from Basu, TK, Schorah, CJ "Vitamin C in health and disease", 1981
Proportion of Population Groups with
Low Leukocyte Vitamin C Reserves
Group A B
Young, Healthy 3% (*) 0%
Elderly, Healthy 20% 3%
Elderly, Outpatient 68% 20%
Patients with Cancer 76% 46%
Institutionalized Elderly 95% 50%
Institutionalized Young 100% 30%
A - indicates those with values 2 standard deviations below normal
((*) Note: by definition of S.D., cannot be below 3%.)
B - indicates those with values low enough to be considered in danger
of developing Scurvy.
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Craig Werner
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