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. 1978 Oct;22(3):97–98.

Relationship of Vitamin C and skin symptoms and signs

E Cheraskin, W M Ringsdorf, F H Medford, B S Hicks
PMCID: PMC2484114

Abstract

This report suggests a significant positive association of vitamin C consumption and skin disorders. Additionally, there is some evidence to indicate that those subjects who increase the daily vitamin C intake reduce the number of clinical skin findings. In contrast, those individuals who do not increase their daily vitamin C consumption show no significant change in the mean number of skin findings.

It is noteworthy that the cutaneous findings reported here with vitamin C irrespective of sugar, parallel the observations earlier described with sugar irrespective of vitamin C.

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